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- From: marc@tanda.isis.org (Marc Thibault)
- Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk
- Subject: Re: Beneficial Virus?
- Message-ID: <472321792DN5.61R@tanda.isis.org>
- Date: Sat, 02 Jan 93 15:00:28 EST
- References: <725811811.24290@zooid.guild.org> <1992Dec31.191448.29680@panix.com> <BETSYS.92Dec31161124@ra.cs.umb.edu> <C063rH.IML@panix.com>
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- In article <C063rH.IML@panix.com> (Richard Powers) complains:
- > I'm beginning to see that many people have some _serious_
- > misconceptions about virii.
-
- Actually it's our poverty of imagination; we can't conceive of
- anything a 'good' virus will do that couldn't be done by a
- driver, daemon or utility in a simpler, more elegant and safer
- manner.
-
- Point is, all sorts of beneficial things can be dreamed up for
- virii to do, if you are desparate to justify their use; but
- none of these things (so far) are best done by a virus.
-
- Can anyone enlighten us with something that takes advantage of
- the _unique_ properties of a virus? The "incredible shrinking
- binary" virus is an immediate loser; utilities like PkLite
- (specific) and Stacker (general) already provide this service
- without involving a virus.
-
- Cheers,
-
- Marc
-
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- Marc Thibault | Automation Architect | All we are saying
- marc@tanda.isis.org | R.R.1, Oxford Mills, | is give global
- CIS:71441,2226 | Ontario, Canada K0G 1S0 | warming a chance.
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