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From: holland@m2.csc.ti.com (Fred Hollander)
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Subject: Re: Virus 101: Chapter 3
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Date: 15 Mar 89 18:34:13 GMT
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In article <11179@ut-emx.UUCP> osmigo@emx.UUCP (Ron Morgan) writes:
>[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...|-:}

[stuff deleted]

>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

Not that I've read it but, you've just supplied an excellent example of how
distributing information can be helpful for the *good* people.  Probably the
best way to learn how to protect yourself from burglars is to learn how they
work.  A good burglar makes a good security consultant.

By publishing known methods used by computer viruses, people can write
software to detect, kill or prevent viruses.  Software can be designed
to protect itself from infection.  I think if you could keep everyone
in the dark, we would all be much more vulnerable to infection and
less equipped to combat an infection.

Fred Hollander
Computer Science Center
Texas Instruments, Inc.
hollander@ti.com

The above statements are my own and not representative of Texas Instruments.