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From: jamesm@sco.COM (James M. Moore)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer,comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Suggestion for virus prevention
Message-ID: <1292@viscous.sco.COM>
Date: 13 Jan 89 20:29:36 GMT
References: <1272@viscous.sco.COM> <313@gloom.UUCP>
Reply-To: jamesm@sco.COM (James M. Moore)
Organization: The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc.
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In article <313@gloom.UUCP> cory@gloom.UUCP (Cory Kempf) writes:
>Only to the extent that the virus was unaware of the code... A well
>built virus coud concevebly subvert the software involved in makeing
>the check to always reporting a negative result (ie no virus), leading
>to a false sense of security.

Yes, but this means that viruses would need to be specific to a
certain program.  The most likely target would be the system itself,
with perhaps special cases for individual applications.  While that
would certainly not eliminate the problem entirely, it would at least
limit the spread of the virus and hopefully make it easier to detect.

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** James Moore **
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