Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!topologix!devin
From: devin@topologix.topologix.com (Devin Hooker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Virus jokes
Message-ID: <210@topologix.topologix.com>
Date: 10 Nov 88 18:40:10 GMT
References: <13265@oberon.USC.EDU>
Reply-To: devin@topologix (Devin Hooker)
Organization: Topologix Incorporated, Denver CO
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In article <13265@oberon.USC.EDU> papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa) writes:
<The lastest UNIX virus seems to be great news: Johnny Carson had 3 jokes
<about the virus on the Tonight Show.  The best one was:
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<"We now have to put a condom on our Macintosh"
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<[my monthly piece of junk mail :-)]
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<-- Marco Papa 'Doc'
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	Incedentally, one of the protections from the latest UNIX virus is 
called a condom - it's a file with permissions 0.  It has the same name as
one of the original files the virus needs to start itself up.  The virus 
comes in (no pun intented) tries to write that file and boink...it bounces
off.  Cute, huh?

				-Devin
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Devin Hooker
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