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From: peter@sugar.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: IRQ virus (and a personal note to Steve)
Message-ID: <3200@sugar.uu.net>
Date: 2 Jan 89 15:39:05 GMT
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In article <10788@s.ms.uky.edu> sean@ms.uky.edu (Sean Casey) writes:
>It's going to get a whole lot worse before it gets better. The biggest
>light at the end of the tunnel is probably a protected mode OS with
>enforced privileges. Once debugged, at this would at least protect the
>system files from a user running a virus.

This wouldn't be enough. You would also need multiuser protection, and you
would need the USER to have enough discipline to not just sit in root all
the time, as home-unix folks are wont to do.

And when you'd done this, you'll have lost enough real-time performance that
you might as well be running on a PC again.

On the other hand, this is really a necessary requirement for a convenient,
yet virus-free, work environment. It's not sufficient, but it's a start.

Oh, for UNIX under AmigaDOS.
-- 
Peter "Have you hugged your wolf today" da Silva  `-_-'  Hackercorp.
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