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From: woodside@ttidca.TTI.COM (George Woodside)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Viruses
Keywords: virus, antibody
Message-ID: <8940@ttidca.TTI.COM>
Date: 11 Jan 90 15:08:13 GMT
References: <21702@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU>
Reply-To: woodside@ttidcb.tti.com (George Woodside)
Organization: Citicorp/TTI, Santa Monica
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In article <21702@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> cr1@beach.cis.ufl.edu (Chris Roth) writes:
...[edited]...
>...I have heard of things called antibodies, that sit in
>your boot sector and do something like flash the screen .  The idea
>being that if a virus hits and writes over the antibody, you will
>notice the screen not flashing.  Is there currently a program to
>install something like this out?

There are two such "anti-virus" programs that I have copies of.
One spreads itself across disks, just like a virus would. That is,
in my opinion, unacceptable.

The other can be manually installed on a disk, and will do something
like what you ask. I can post it, after I find time to set up a
reasonable install program. It will take a little while, though, since
I'm a little short on spare time...

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