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- From: phardie@nastar.uucp (Pete Hardie)
- Subject: Re: Beneficial Virus?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan11.165747.6941@nastar.uucp>
- Organization: Digital Transmission Systems, Duluth, GA.
- References: <19348@mindlink.bc.ca> <1993Jan8.152210.29106@nastar.uucp> <C0L073.HxM@panix.com>
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 16:57:47 GMT
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- In article <C0L073.HxM@panix.com> rpowers@panix.com (Richard Powers) writes:
- >In <1993Jan8.152210.29106@nastar.uucp> phardie@nastar.uucp (Pete Hardie) writes:
- >>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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- If the BCV is present on your system, and you did not install it yourself,
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- YOU ARE VULNERABLE!
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