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Subject: Clints Message
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Date: 7 Aug 88 02:47:30 GMT
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>One of the most devious virus attempts I have seen is a 'virus 
>eliminator' that supposedly looked for CyberAIDS (supposedly 
>written by Tom E. Hawk) in SYS files and 'destroyed' it.  Well,
>a friend and I tried it on a backup copy of ProTERM which we 
>obviously knew was NOT contaminated.  When the program came up 
>with a 'this disk is contaminated, file PRODOS has been cured' or
>something to that effect, we became curious. **** The program 
>itself installed CyberAIDS in the PRODOS file.  Quite nasty, 
>eh?  I suggest writing thy own virus debuggers!*********
 
Clint Fleckenstein ("SpyroGyra")
NU132271@NDSUVM1.BITNET
45% of all statistics are made up.

If you all look at the last sentence, it states that the Program itself
installed the VIRUS. I'd interpet that itself as a Virus... If you don't 
like my interpetation, tough.. That's what makes the World go round...

Joe

discalimer: The opinions expressed are my own.. They may not be right all
the time, but who's perfect...