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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 00:34:17 GMT
- Message-ID: <19348@mindlink.bc.ca>
- Sender: news@deep.rsoft.bc.ca (Usenet)
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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.
-
- Then you shouldn't use any program that is over a month old.. Someone could
- have written a trojan into it. But then you can't trust new programs because
- they might be trojans... Hmmm, hire in-house programmers to make ALL your
- s/w.
-
- P.S. if someone was going to write a virus they wouldn't have it say "Hi, i'm
- nice, trust me", they'd have it secretly infect..
-
- I do agree that it should have a suicide flag so that if you ever want a
- clean version (Maybe you use stacker or one of the disk doublers already) you
- could get it. I'm just saying that if it's a 'clean' system you shouldn't use
- ANY outside programs at all.
-
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- Clayten_Hamacher@Mindlink.bc.ca Land of the rising snow.
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