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- From: betsys@cs.umb.edu (Elizabeth Schwartz)
- Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk
- Subject: Re: Beneficial Virus?
- Message-ID: <BETSYS.93Jan7125620@ra.cs.umb.edu>
- Date: 7 Jan 93 17:56:20 GMT
- References: <19311@mindlink.bc.ca> <1993Jan7.152804.25976@nastar.uucp>
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- Organization: University of Massachusetts at Boston
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- In-Reply-To: phardie@nastar.uucp's message of 7 Jan 93 15: 28:04 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan7.152804.25976@nastar.uucp> phardie@nastar.uucp (Pete Hardie) writes:
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- >But if the environment requires virus-free code, ANY infected program is not
- >acceptable. Just because the pop-up message says "I'm just a decompression
- >virus, I won't hurt your system." does NOT means that's true. Once this
- >compressor virus was out for a while, there would be a dangerous virus that
- >mimicked it up to the point where it entered the system, then attacked.
-
- Exactly, exactly. i wonder if these cheery hypothesizers have ever
- EXPERIENCED a virus infection on a PC in a work environment? Or
- discovered that there were altered system files on a multi-user
- networked machine, which they were being paid to keep secure?
- There's a very clear line on this group, and in comp.unix.admin,
- between the paid system maintainers and what I would categorize as the
- inexperienced users. Anyone who's ever seen a weird message appear on
- a system console late Friday afternoon or early Monday morning has a
- different attitude about "fool-proof" "guaranteed harmless" programs!
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