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- From: phardie@nastar.uucp (Pete Hardie)
- Subject: Re: Beneficial Virus?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan5.153018.18935@nastar.uucp>
- Organization: Digital Transmission Systems, Duluth, GA.
- References: <1992Dec31.145332.9194@nastar.uucp> <67iRwB1w165w@ruth.UUCP>
- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 15:30:18 GMT
- Lines: 41
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- In article <67iRwB1w165w@ruth.UUCP> rat@ruth.UUCP (David Douthitt) writes:
- >phardie@nastar.uucp (Pete Hardie) writes:
- >
- >| Suppose you need to copy an executable from one system to anothe
- >| and the new system does not have the marker?
- >
- >So put it on! Sheesh. Just like having to put MSDOS on the system
- >before you run that executable....
-
- My point is that you do not necessarily know which file is the marker.
-
- >| Or the disk crashes across
- >| the marker?
- >
- >Then the virus dies. Are you really that concerned about the viruses welfare?
-
- I'm concerned about a file that was compressed as it was put on disk, and now
- may not be uncompressed.
-
- >| How do you get the files back?
- >
- >In general terms of viruses, the virus dies and thats that - no files are
- >affected. If there is supposed to be a marker, when the marker is returned
- >files will be re-infected.
- >
- >In the case of this compression tool example, the files will be expanded and
- >returned to full size without a virus present. Once a marker is reinstalled,
- >if there are ANY files with the virus present, they will reinfect (and
- >recompress) all files on the system.
-
- Ok, this is the part that I was unclear about.
-
- Still, the question arises - suppose I decide I don't want those files stored
- compressed any more. How would I get rid of the virus?
-
-
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- Pete Hardie: phardie@nastar (voice) (404) 497-0101
- Digital Transmission Systems, Inc., Duluth GA
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