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From: dan-hankins@cup.portal.com (Daniel B Hankins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: IRQ virus
Message-ID: <13341@cup.portal.com>
Date: 9 Jan 89 05:32:56 GMT
References: <27@snll-arpagw.UUCP>
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
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Re self-checking programs:  Not effective.  The virus prepends itself to
the program.  After the virus executes, *then* in loads the regular program
and runs it.  The regular program never knows the virus was there.  The
checksum matches.


Dan Hankins