Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!onfcanim!dave
From: dave@onfcanim.UUCP (Dave Martindale)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: The ultimate fix!!!
Message-ID: <16144@onfcanim.UUCP>
Date: 15 Sep 88 17:06:15 GMT
References: <681@zehntel.UUCP> <2881@amiga.UUCP>
Reply-To: dave@onfcanim.UUCP (Dave Martindale)
Organization: National Film Board / Office national du film, Montreal
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In article <2881@amiga.UUCP> jimm@cloyd.UUCP (Jim Mackraz) writes:
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>Read up on viruses: you can't protect against them using any means
>you would like to live with.  The best thing to do is to help this
>fad pass.

How about hardware memory protection?  It actually helps you debug
code, and may allow "virtual memory", but as a side effect it can
absolutely prevent viruses that install themselves in the operating
system somewhere.

Or is this still too radical an idea for a "personal computer"?