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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: <C0psy4.KtL@panix.com>
- Organization: PANIX Public Access Unix, NYC
- References: <C0IDMu.By5@panix.com> <1993Jan8.151721.29014@nastar.uucp> <C0Kztn.Hvu@panix.com> <1993Jan11.164043.6756@nastar.uucp>
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 00:20:28 GMT
- Lines: 20
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- In <1993Jan11.164043.6756@nastar.uucp> phardie@nastar.uucp (Pete Hardie) writes:
- >In article <C0Kztn.Hvu@panix.com> rpowers@panix.com (Richard Powers) writes:
- >>This I do not agree with. If a virus makes calls to code that is
- >>available to any program via the OS, this does not make it any less a
- >>virus. (ie: calling code contained in libraries.) If the code it
- >>calls resides someplace else, what difference does it make?
-
- >Algorithmic integrity. A virus has all of the algorithm contained in the
- >single infected program, and does not need to access another file for part
- >of the algorithm. If it needs to access another file for part of its 'real'
- >code, it cannot spread by itself.
-
- No program of any kind has _all_ the code it needs to run. The OS is
- an integral part. On top of that, I've seen quite a few "lazy"
- programs which call a DOS command to do something instead of
- duplicating the code.
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