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From: iphwk%MTSUNIX1.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu (Bill Kinnersley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Re: Stamp out Zeroes
Message-ID: <3628@louie.udel.EDU>
Date: 6 Aug 88 15:01:43 GMT
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[In "Re: Stamp out Zeroes!", Jim Blandy said:]
>
> In article <3613@louie.udel.EDU> you write:
> >
> >Viruses can be written to hitch a ride on any executable, not just the
> >boot block.  And with a nice block of zeroes waiting,
> >
> >char buf[1000];
>
> Actually, I don't think your worries apply to executables.  That array
> would get stored as a BSS hunk, i.e. a hunk containing only the size
> of the space to be allocated and cleared, not a whole slew of zeros.
> The body of the hunk would be one longword, four bytes.  No space to
> store a virus.
>
> I'm afraid I think you're barking at the moon.
>
You're absolutely right.  And I went off half-cocked too. My apologies.

--Bill K.