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- Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk
- Path: sparky!uunet!psinntp!panix!rpowers
- From: rpowers@panix.com (Richard Powers)
- Subject: Re: Beneficial Virus?
- Message-ID: <C0L073.HxM@panix.com>
- Organization: PANIX Public Access Unix, NYC
- References: <19348@mindlink.bc.ca> <1993Jan8.152210.29106@nastar.uucp>
- Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 10:09:02 GMT
- Lines: 21
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- In <1993Jan8.152210.29106@nastar.uucp> phardie@nastar.uucp (Pete Hardie) writes:
- >In article <19348@mindlink.bc.ca> Clayten_Hamacher@mindlink.bc.ca (Clayten Hamacher) writes:
- >>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..
-
- >But that's just what the BCV does, in one description. It prompts the user
- >for an action (suicide, install marker file, etc). If the BCV existed,
- >how long do you think it would be before someone wrote a copy-cat virus
- >that looked for the same marker file, performed the same compression, and
- >at some later date, wiped the disk clean?
-
- But it wouldn't be the same BCV. You could check for alterations the
- same way you use a checksum to check the integrity of existing files.
- The BCV does not change the extent to which you are vulnerable to
- "bad" virii. If you are not taking precautions against unwanted
- virii, you will be vulnerable. BCV or not.
-
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