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- From: phardie@nastar.uucp (Pete Hardie)
- Subject: Re: Beneficial Virus?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.145332.9194@nastar.uucp>
- Organization: Digital Transmission Systems, Duluth, GA.
- References: <725430469.26792@zooid.guild.org> <1992Dec30.235206.20192@panix.com>
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 14:53:32 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec30.235206.20192@panix.com> rpowers@panix.com (Richard Powers) writes:
- >Quite a broad statement there. I came up with an idea (never
- >implemented BTW) for a file compression virus for use on my home
- >computer(s). Basically it would be a standard virus, but it would
- >compress a file it prepends itself to, so that upon execution
- >it would uncompress the file for normal execution. It would _only_
- >infect files that could benefit from compression. It would also check
- >for some file or other sort of marker on the system that the user
- >would have placed to give the virus permission to spread. Thus
- >keeping it from spreading to anyone who didn't want it around.
-
- Beneficial? Suppose you need to copy an executable from one system to another,
- and the new system does not have the marker? Or the disk crashes across
- the marker? How do you get the files back?
-
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