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- From: rat@ruth.UUCP (David Douthitt)
- Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk
- Subject: Re: Beneficial Virus?
- Message-ID: <D4JRwB3w165w@ruth.UUCP>
- Date: 2 Jan 93 19:02:48 GMT
- References: <1992Dec31.193459.765@panix.com>
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- rpowers@panix.com (Richard Powers) writes:
-
- | Well, its becoming obvious that you and others here have a deep
- | prejudice against programs which self-replicate.
-
- Just another instance of paranoid tendencies :-)
-
- | Just for the sake of argument:
- |
- | If you copy an executable from one system to another without a
- | permission file/marker it would still run. The virus would just not
- | stay in memory after doing its job of decompressing the file it was
- | attached to, and thus not spread.
-
- Interesting - NOT committ hari-kari?
-
- | Alternatively (prefferred), it
- | could alert the user to its existence, and give the user the choice of
- | letting the virus stay in the file, or telling the virus to remove
- | itself from the file.
-
- PREFERRED? I think far too many people would PANIC and would do something
- drastic. Better to either die or not stay resident...
-
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