Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!elroy!gryphon!pnet02!mriley From: mriley@pnet02.cts.com (Mark Riley) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: VirusX and the like... Message-ID: <5819@gryphon.CTS.COM> Date: 23 Aug 88 01:00:12 GMT Sender: root@gryphon.CTS.COM Organization: People-Net [pnet02], Redondo Beach, CA. Lines: 30 We're up to VirusX 1.71 now, huh? Well, I guess that's to be expected since the only thing these virus killer programs do is spur on the virus writers. Isn't it plain by now that this is a war that nobody can win? Perhaps if the writer's of the virus killer programs stopped now, the virus writers would lose much of their incentive to write ever newer viruses that beat the latest virus killers. I made similar comments to Bill Koester on BIX concerning his virus killer program which were quickly ignored. It's now many months later and the situation seems to have taken a turn in the direction I predicted earlier. Too bad. Personally, I haven't encountered viruses or used the virus killer programs. Many people I have spoken with haven't either. I imagine there is some sort of correlation between the types of activities you use your Amiga for and whether or not you've encountered a virus. If that's the case, then "education" would be a much better defense against viruses than a virus killer. (Come to think of it, wouldn't it be easy for a virus writer to detect the presence of a specific virus killer and perform it's mischieviousness if it were present? Just a weird thot...) In any case, I just thought I'd reiterate my earlier comments here on different ears. -Mark- P.S. Another weird thot: Perhaps it's better that these virus writers take out their aggressions on computer data instead of committing some other crime. Like I said, just another weird thot... ;-) (Gee, I spelled that word right 1 out of 4 times! ;-) UUCP: {ames!elroy, }!crash!gryphon!pnet02!mriley INET: mriley@pnet02.cts.com "Hey, I don't _use_ programs, I write them..." ;-)