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From: papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Internet UNIX virus
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Date: 4 Nov 88 23:32:57 GMT
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In article <6279@csli.STANFORD.EDU> gandalf@csli.stanford.edu (Juergen Wagner) writes:
|In article <13232@oberon.USC.EDU| papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa) writes:
||This is dedicated to all the guys that claimed that "UNIX is much more
||secure than the Amiga" with regard to viruses.
|...[copy of a posting to comp.bugs.4bsd.ucb-fixes deleted]..
|
|Nonsense! UNIX is an operating system far more complex than Amiga DOS or 
|whatever it is called. UNIX can be networked, and in such systems, it is
                        ^^^^
|much more likely to have these problems.
 ^^^^^^^^^

|You are comparing apples and pears. Oh, and I sohould mention that Amiga
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|DOS (or whatever) is much more vulnerable to Virus attacks because
                      ^^^^^^^^^
[extra junk deleted]

You just contradicted yourself, dude.  And by the way, do you have any idea
on how long it took to infect almost ALL Suns and VAXens networked to the
Internet around the world? It was just a matter of hours. And how many 
man-hours were lost to manually substitute each version of sendmail on
all UNIX hosts?  

-- Marco Papa 'Doc'
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