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- From: Clayten_Hamacher@mindlink.bc.ca (Clayten Hamacher)
- Subject: Re: Beneficial Virus?
- Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 00:28:26 GMT
- Message-ID: <19346@mindlink.bc.ca>
- Sender: news@deep.rsoft.bc.ca (Usenet)
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- >I don't care what you do on your home computer. The post I was
- >responding to mentionned the virus executing on *other* systems and
- >testing on these *other* systems for the presence of a marker file.
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- The virus searching you root directory for a marker file is wrong? How about
- a game searching for a sound card? or any program searching for preferences
- file?
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- If it changed something in it's search then that would be a reason to not
- want it around. But, since when did the word search imply 'search and
- destroy'?
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- Clayten_Hamacher@Mindlink.bc.ca Land of the rising snow.
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