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From: dav@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (William David Haas)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Right of reply, virus- public, private- a thin line
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Date: 2 Mar 89 15:54:43 GMT
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In article <15225@cup.portal.com> Bob_BobR_Retelle@cup.portal.com writes:
>Greg Lindahl writes that he was able to write a virus detecting ACCessory
>from a description of a virus...
> 
>That's great, and Greg's ACCessory may be able to help a lot of others to
>check out their disks...  but...   Greg and others here are in the minority
>when considered against the larger body of ST  *users*  to whom a description
>of a virus would be largely "Greek".  To them, the information would be
>practically worthless, other than to alert them that such things are
>possible..

I have no idea how to make a virus.  I also have no idea how to stop one.  If
someone posted a virus I would not read it to learn how to stop so I could
right my own.  Why should I when there are great humanitarians like Greg L.
running around (Thanks Greg!).  On the other hand, I would like to see the
code with an explanation of how it works just so I can learn a little about
the subject.  I wont be creating any vires (sp?) and I wont be creating any
vaccination programs but I would like to know how they work.

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 birds are going to get us!"               Psimon              / _ \
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