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From: dan-hankins@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: The ultimate fix!!!
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Date: 3 Oct 88 07:07:42 GMT
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In article <2725@sugar.uu.net> peter@sugar.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes

>In article <36066@philabs.Philips.Com>, mkr@kestrel.Philips.Com (Michael K. Reed) writes:
>> 	What is this, some kind of SICK JOKE???  Unix is well known as one of
>> 	the premier systems to hack, second only to TWENEX (TOPS-20) for the
>> 	award of "Most Abusable Operating System".
>
>This might be true, but for the case of a virus it's the toughest. Unless
>you've made sort of breakthrough that allows a 68000 program to run on a Vax,
>8086-family machine, NS32032-family machine, Pr1me, Perkin-Elmer, Gould, Cray,
>and so on.

There is no need for a 68000 program to run on all those other
architectures.  The virus attaches itself to an executable on the machine
it is running on.  The user then spreads the virus by copying or allowing
tobe copied an infected program to another machine.  The virus is never
copied to a Vax, 8086, NS32032, Pr1me, etc.

A virus copies itself within a machine.  Users copy viruses between
machines.


Dan Hankins