Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!super!rminnich
From: rminnich@super.ORG (Ronald G Minnich)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Viruses (was: Re: The ultimate fix!!!)
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Date: 7 Oct 88 13:42:41 GMT
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In article <12643@oberon.USC.EDU> papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa) writes:
>computer viruseshe is now developing.  One of ffirst results that he
>came up with was the proof of "undecidability" of whether a program is 
>a virus or not.  This means that I can give you the "source" of a program
>and there is no way for you to decide whether it will act as a virus or not.
Funny you should mention this. There
is a program called 'vaccine' for the MAC which 
will claim that minicad is a virus!
It confuses the copy protection of minicad with 
virus code. 
ron