Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!super!udel!gatech!rutgers!bellcore!tness7!tness1!uhnix1!sugar!karl
From: karl@sugar.uu.net (Karl Lehenbauer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: The ultimate fix!!!
Message-ID: <2772@sugar.uu.net>
Date: 9 Oct 88 12:52:04 GMT
References: <8810081911.AA17305@cory.Berkeley.EDU>
Organization: Sugar Land Unix - Houston, TX
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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 ...

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!
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