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From: dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: The ultimate fix!!!
Message-ID: <8810092209.AA09182@cory.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: 9 Oct 88 22:09:28 GMT
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:In article <8810081911.AA17305@cory.Berkeley.EDU>, dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon) writes:
:I wrote:
:>:Damage from a virus/trojan/etc could be significantly reduced on a Unix system
:>:by running new programs from a special signon that doesn't own anything 
:>:important that could be lost.
:
:> 	Excuse me, bullshit.  I wish people would drop this "virus's can be
:> stopped" crap, it just isn't possible.  The whole thing can be ...
:
>-- uunet!sugar!karl, Unix BBS (713) 438-5018 Writes:
:Excuse me, quote me and then say I said something else, goddammit.  I said
:"reduced" not "stopped."  Also my posting went on to say that even having 
:the source code is no guarantee of protection AND that no amount of testing 
:>could guarantee a program didn't contain malicious code...hardly "virus's 
:>can be stopped" crap!

	Well, let me qualify that:

	(1) The first bullshit remark was in direct reply to you
	(2) The remarks following were general to the discussion and not to you
	(3) And anyway, what you suggest has already been done... in fact, 
	    it is done all the time.  Since it has already been implemented,
	    no virus writer bothers to write viri that take advantage of a
	    lack of the implementation because everybody implements it.

					-Matt