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From: osmigo@ut-emx.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st,comp.sys.apple,comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Virus 101: Chapter 3
Message-ID: <11179@ut-emx.UUCP>
Date: 14 Mar 89 19:47:08 GMT
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Reply-To: osmigo@emx.UUCP (Ron Morgan)
Organization: Speech Communication UT Austin
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[George Woodside posts a continuation of "Virus 101"]

You mentioned 1 out of 4 e-mail respondents falling in the "you idiot!"
category. Count me, too, you idiot...|-:}

No, your articles don't tell "how to write a virus" in the sense of providing
sample source code, but they certainly present a clear blueprint. You go into
great detail about how viruses can work, where they need to go, how they
overcome obstacles and protections, etc., to the point of naming specific
disk sectors. 

You state that a non-programmer won't get anything out of your article, and
that a programmer can easily find this information in "any good computer
book." If that's the case, why post it in the first place? Gimme a break.

Also, keep in mind that comp.sys.mac is uploaded to many, many Mac BBS's
around the country, including underground "outlaw" BBS's populated largely
by high school and college hackers. I know of more than one local BBS of
this type, where you can download virtually every Mac program on the market,
and some people on there would LOVE to get their hands on this kind of
information.

Your articles remind me of a Reader's Digest article I saw some time back
on "How to Protect Your House From Burglars." It was the best article on
"How to burglarize a house" I'd ever seen.

Ron
  
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