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- From: martin@cs.ualberta.ca (Tim Martin; FSO; Soil Sciences)
- Newsgroups: comp.virus
- Subject: Re: WARNING - Virus Creation Laboratory (PC)
- Message-ID: <0006.9207281750.AA19608@barnabas.cert.org>
- Date: 27 Jul 92 17:23:42 GMT
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- millernw@craft.camp.clarkson.edu (Neal Miller) writes:
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- > Oh for crying out loud... Just what we need... A
- >Virus-Construction Kit for beginners... I hope that McAfee gets their
- >hands on this package ASAP, if not sooner. Here's an idea... Could
-
- The package has already been forwarded to Frisk, McAfee, etc.
- I will not send it to anyone else, so don't bother asking. :)
-
- >someone conceivably write a virus that will seek out and destroy such
- >a V.C.L. based on unique strings within the program? Just an idea...
-
- Technically, yes. Ethically, morally, no. An idea, yes, a good one,
- no. A virus designed to destroy other viruses might easily become
- more of a problem that the viruses it seeks to destroy. Depending on
- how one defines "virus", one might argue a case for "good" viruses,
- but that debate doesn't include viruses designed to seek out and
- destroy one another. Playing "core wars" in real cyberspace is not a
- good idea. :)
-
- Tim
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