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From: lishka@uwslh.UUCP (Fish-Guts)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: The ultimate fix!!!
Message-ID: <378@uwslh.UUCP>
Date: 15 Sep 88 16:20:36 GMT
References: <681@zehntel.UUCP> <3084@hermes.ai.mit.edu> <4197@thorin.cs.unc.edu> <599@accelerator.eng.ohio-state.edu>
Reply-To: lishka@uwslh.UUCP (Fish-Guts)
Organization: U of Wisconsin-Madison, State Hygiene Lab
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In article <599@accelerator.eng.ohio-state.edu> mills@phao.eng.ohio-state.edu (Christopher Mills) writes:
>In article <4197@thorin.cs.unc.edu> bell@unc.UUCP (Andrew Bell) writes:
>>
>>However,  an idea that might at least make virus writing more difficult would
>>be creating custom boot blocks that do interesting things.  Perhaps a bunch of
>>Robotron robots performing anti-marketroid maneuvers...
>>
>
>	Arrgh!  No!  Not a robotroff virus!  No!  Please!  No!

     No no no no no....  You missed his point, which I thought went
something like "stick some hard to reproduce animation code, encoded
in some fashion, in the boot block.  When the machine starts up, the
cute animation code would run to tell you everything was fine."  At
least that is how I interpreted it.

     The problem is this cute animation code could be duplicated.
Let's face it...viruses will always be around.  The only thing to do
is ignore the viruses and their creators.  There is no miracle cure.

>| Christopher Mills              | "If you see someone without a smile, |
>| mills@baloo.eng.ohio-state.edu |  give them mine - I'm not using it." |
>====== My thoughts are not my own--I'm posessed by mailer daemons. ======


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Wisconsin State Lab of Hygiene                   lishka%uwslh.uucp@cs.wisc.edu
Immunology Section  (608)262-1617                            lishka@uwslh.uucp
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