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- From: mechalas@gn.ecn.purdue.edu (John P. Mechalas)
- Subject: Re: Civ questions and civ viruses
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.222544.18775@gn.ecn.purdue.edu>
- Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
- References: <1992Nov23.085117.45042@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> <1992Nov23.154816.3166@gn.ecn.purdue.edu> <41489@sdcc12.ucsd.edu>
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 92 22:25:44 GMT
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- In article <41489@sdcc12.ucsd.edu> cs177wai@sdcc5.ucsd.edu (Never mind) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov23.154816.3166@gn.ecn.purdue.edu> mechalas@gn.ecn.purdue.edu (John P. Mechalas) writes:
- >>In article <1992Nov23.085117.45042@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> 2huxsting@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes:
- >[Stuff about Civilization infected with viruses deleted.]
- >
- >What a wonderful idea for copy protection!
- >
- >Release a normal version included with the boxed game.
- >
- >Release a second version infected with all sorts of nasties through
- >illegitamite means. (Upload it to a few "bad" BBSs. "Accidentally"
- >let the copy get out the door.) Game plays normally for one-half
- >hour, then !BOOM! wipes the hard drive. No one bothers to crack
- >the real version since they think it already has been cracked, but
- >if anyone uses the "cracked" version they get smacked real damn
- >hard.
- >
- >Sounds pretty effective to me!
-
- Yeah. Sure is. And if it's a boot sector virus, it will infect any diskette
- put in the floppy. Even legitimate ones. Then you could possibly have a
- massive infection of boot-sector-infected viruses.
- Or the person can play it on a campus computer, and if precautions
- aren't taken properly, someone else could use the computer legitimately and
- end up infecting his/her diskettes with a file infector virus, and then
- go home to infect their computer...and now you have another outbreak.
- Pretty effective, huh? :)
-
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