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- Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk
- Path: sparky!uunet!van-bc!rsoft!mindlink!a3916
- From: Clayten_Hamacher@mindlink.bc.ca (Clayten Hamacher)
- Subject: Re: Beneficial Virus?
- Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 06:00:48 GMT
- Message-ID: <19531@mindlink.bc.ca>
- Sender: news@deep.rsoft.bc.ca (Usenet)
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- >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.
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- You could have a breeder virus, one with all the code to install a marker
- file if the user so desired, and a nuetered virus, one with the replication
- and compression code removed..
-
- The way this would work is that the master virus would ask 'Marker File not
- found: Install marker file, remove compression, or continue?' when you ran an
- infected file, if you said install then it would copy the replication code
- and compression routines into the marker and save itself as a nuetered
- version. Then if your friend wanted a copy of the breeder to install, you'd
- run the marker file and it would put all the code back into a complete
- version of the virus ready to be installed.
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- This would be a virus because it would contain all the code for replication
- etc but would copy this into one file when installed to save space.
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- Clayten_Hamacher@Mindlink.bc.ca Land of the rising snow.
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