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From: ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: VirusX and the like...
Summary: This sounds familiar...
Message-ID: <6907@well.UUCP>
Date: 24 Aug 88 07:45:50 GMT
References: <5819@gryphon.CTS.COM>
Reply-To: ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab)
Organization: Slow-Witted Weapons Experts, Ltd.
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In article <5819@gryphon.CTS.COM> mriley@pnet02.cts.com (Mark Riley) writes:
>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?  [ ... ]

	I've heard this argument before.  It's the same one that's been
levelled against copy protection.

>[If the virus-killer authors stopped now,]
>the virus writers would lose much of their incentive to write
>ever newer viruses that beat the latest virus killers.

	If purveyors of copy protection stopped devising new and more
complex methods of protecting software, the pirates would lose interest in
breaking the software and life would be wonderful.

	It goes on (trust me, it does go on.  Please do not prove it or ask
for it to be proven).

	Mark:  I'm not flaming you; you bring up a valid point.  The trouble
is that, once the war has started, it's next to impossible to stop it.

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