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- From: marc@tanda.isis.org (Marc Thibault)
- Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk
- Subject: Re: Beneficial Virus?
- Message-ID: <17241613DN5.61R@tanda.isis.org>
- Date: Sat, 09 Jan 93 22:13:01 EST
- References: <C0EJAu.HuI@panix.com> <1993Jan6.152243.22472@nastar.uucp> <C0GIA7.4Fz@panix.com> <1993Jan7.152339.25886@nastar.uucp> <C0IDMu.By5@panix.com>
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- In article <C0IDMu.By5@panix.com>
- (Richard Powers) writes:
-
- > The whole idea has involved from the original to deal with a lot of
- > nitpicking problems. The original context was a hypothetical concept
- > to refute the idea that a beneficial virus is inherently _impossible_.
-
- No wonder this thread has gone on and on to the point of
- absurdity! Richard has been trying to refute the wrong idea!
- We all know it's possible. The point is that the idea of a
- beneficial virus is inherently _silly_; that anything such a
- program would do is more effectively done any of a number of
- other ways with less opportunity for disaster.
-
- > deal with. And that is: a method to automatically PowerPack (an Amiga
-
- I don't know how you'd do it on an Amiga, Richard, but on my
- PC, I'd put the following in my backup script:
-
- global for /A:a %exe in (*.exe *.dll) do packexe %exe
-
- to compress every executable introduced or changed since my
- last backup. What would the miracle virus do that this
- doesn't?
-
- Cheers,
- Marc
-
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- Marc Thibault | Automation Architect | All we are saying
- marc@tanda.isis.org | R.R.1, Oxford Mills, | is give global
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