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From: peter@sugar.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: The ultimate fix!!!
Message-ID: <2762@sugar.uu.net>
Date: 8 Oct 88 02:38:06 GMT
References: <681@zehntel.UUCP> <3084@hermes.ai.mit.edu> <4197@thorin.cs.unc <9764@cup.portal.com>
Organization: Sugar Land Unix - Houston, TX
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In article <9764@cup.portal.com>, dan-hankins@cup.portal.com writes:
> ... more comments about people not copying programs ...

> People copy executables all the time.  Here are some scenarios:

> 1. Piracy

This is an easy one to solve. Don't.

> 2. PD/Shareware that comes without source, particularly shareware.

On *UNIX*?

> 3. Commercial OCO (object-code-only) distribution

Yeh, but if you get bit by this you know where to look.

> How often do people demonstrate programs for each other?  A friend comes
> over and sticks his disk in your machine to show you a neat program.

On UNIX? Generally he mails me a shar and I break it up and compile it.
I don't think I've ever had someone give me anything on disk to show. For
one thing it won't run... yeh, it's got a common object format sometimes,
but that Vax code really doesn't run very fast on our '286es.

[lots of other examples of infection deleted]

We're talking UNIX here. You have to recompile it to run it. If the virus
can survive 'tar xvf /dev/rmt0; env M_XENIX=1 make' we're doomed.
-- 
		Peter da Silva  `-_-'  peter@sugar.uu.net
		 Have you hugged  U  your wolf today?