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From: dzenc@hermes.ai.mit.edu (Daniel Zenchelsky)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: The ultimate fix!!!
Message-ID: <3084@hermes.ai.mit.edu>
Date: 13 Sep 88 13:15:49 GMT
References: <681@zehntel.UUCP>
Reply-To: dzenc@hermes.ai.mit.edu.UUCP (Daniel Zenchelsky)
Organization: The MIT AI Lab, Cambridge, MA
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In article <681@zehntel.UUCP> donw@zehntel (Don White) writes:
>[simple mind, simple idea. It's not just a good idea. It's the way i am.]
>
>   Do you supose it would be difficult for Commodore to put a little CRC
> check in their Kickstart and Workbench Boot blocks to INSURE that no 
> virus had been installed? Any time you do boot, a message could come 
> up saying "Kickstart HAS BEEN TAMPERED WITH!!!" and/or "Workbench HAS BEEN
> TAMPERED WITH!!!" if such is the case.
>
>   Is there any reason that this virus baloney has to drag on and on?

Two reasons why that won't work:

1) Virus code can be made to match the checksum.

2) The checksum can be made to match the virus code

Oh well...

-Dan

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