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- Item 6555568 20-June-88 14:00
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- From: MARRIOTT1 Marriott, Greg
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- To: WILSON6 Wilson, Dave - Personal Concepts
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- cc: MACAPP$ MacApp Interest List
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- Sub: Response to Virus Protection
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- Dave,
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- MacApp SHOULD NOT take any steps to avoid infection!! The only way virus
- prevention (in a general sense) can work is if each app has its own defense
- system. If MacApp were to offer any sort of "standard" virus infection
- prevention, then one virus that could get around MacApp's system would nail
- every app developed with MacApp.
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- The CODE 0 check you mentioned is one of many ways apps can check themselves
- against infection. As long as each developer takes his own steps to avoid
- infection, then viruses will have a harder time finding "generic" transport
- mechanisms.
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- Greg Marriott
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