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- From: phardie@nastar.uucp (Pete Hardie)
- Subject: Re: Beneficial Virus?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan11.170504.7132@nastar.uucp>
- Organization: Digital Transmission Systems, Duluth, GA.
- References: <19423@mindlink.bc.ca>
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 17:05:04 GMT
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- In article <19423@mindlink.bc.ca> Clayten_Hamacher@mindlink.bc.ca (Clayten Hamacher) writes:
- >Then why wouldn't someone d/l a new version of some PD utility and install a
- >virus in there? It's just as likely to happen in the compression virus as a
- >space invanders clone.
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- It's easier policy to say: "No games allowed on this machine"
-
- >>You can compare an executable (for non-changing code) against a known clean
- >>copy, to check for infection after the clean copy date.
- >
- >Not if you d/l it from a BBS or FTP site, you can't be sure that what you are
- >getting is clean code.. You can compare later versions with this to see if it
- >changes, but that's another story, you're not sure it's clean.
-
- Again, if you are trying to run a virus-free operation, then you do not d/l
- code from othe rplaces unless you CAN vet them for virii, etc., and can get
- a clean executable copy.
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- Digital Transmission Systems, Inc., Duluth GA
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