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From: whitney@think.COM (David Whitney)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Z-Link and virus checking
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Date: 3 Aug 88 01:31:28 GMT
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In article <11700@steinmetz.ge.com> elliott@armstrong.steinmetz.ge.com () writes:
>
>For this reason, I think it might be a good idea to talk as little as
>possible about whatever virus protections we install in our programs.
>Let them exist there silently until their alarms go off and they
>protect a user. If we can avoid getting the virus writers interested
>in and challenged by our programs, we'll be better off.

Quite the reason why I don't mention quite *how* I'm checking or what the
future method will be. I am told that the method I'll be using later will
report without a doubt if a program is infected and make it pretty hard
for malicous-types to get around.

David Whitney, MIT '90                   DISCLAIMER: Nobody knows what I'm up
{out there}!harvard!think!whitney         to. Don't blame them for my actions
whitney@think.com                         nor me for theirs.
^^^^^ will be changing before 1989 is here. Don't depend on it after 1/1/89.