Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!yale!cmcl2!ccnysci!alexis
From: alexis@ccnysci.UUCP (Alexis Rosen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Virus 101: Chapter 3
Message-ID: <1421@ccnysci.UUCP>
Date: 18 Mar 89 17:45:36 GMT
References: <4035@ttidca.TTI.COM> <11179@ut-emx.UUCP> <722@uhnix2.uh.edu>
Reply-To: alexis@ccnysci.UUCP (Alexis Rosen)
Organization: City College of New York
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I do believe that in some specific cases, the flow of information on viruses
should be slowed or stopped. But these cases should be limited to actual
source and discussions thereof. Several others have already posted rather
toasty articles about why the net should work that way...

I would like to point out that regardless of your position on this issue,
you shouldn't be too concerned about these postings if you're worried about
your Mac (this is, after all, a Mac group). George's articles, while accurate
about the Atari, are NOT RELEVANT to the Mac at all. He seriously
underestimates the degree of difference between different OSs and machines.

For example, on the Mac it is easy to write both a "Shell" and an intrusive
virus. nVIR is a shell (well, sort of), and ANTI is an intrusive virus (again,
sort of).

The funny thing about the Mac is that while it makes it very easy to write a
virus, it also makes it (relatively) easy to detect and fix one.

Alexis Rosen
alexis@ccnysci.uucp