Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!ames!mailrus!ncar!tank!sas1 From: sas1@tank.uchicago.edu (stuart austin schmukler) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer Subject: Re: Suggestion for virus prevention Keywords: CODE resource virus detection Message-ID: <1441@tank.uchicago.edu> Date: 16 Jan 89 05:06:34 GMT References: <1272@viscous.sco.COM> <3614@tekig4.TEK.COM> <27491@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> <10330@well.UUCP> <8048@claris.com> <10355@well.UUCP> Reply-To: sas1@tank.uchicago.edu (stuart austin schmukler) Organization: University of Chicago Lines: 9 People: I'd like to suggest that all code resources include a signature in addition for the checksum. With this signature we can trace the bugs that creep into the hodge-podge systems we are growing basied on XCMDS and the like. SaS