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- From: Clayten_Hamacher@mindlink.bc.ca (Clayten Hamacher)
- Subject: Re: Beneficial Virus?
- Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 06:09:10 GMT
- Message-ID: <19532@mindlink.bc.ca>
- Sender: news@deep.rsoft.bc.ca (Usenet)
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- >If the BCV is present on your system, and you did not install it yourself,
- >
- > YOU ARE VULNERABLE!
-
- Quit the hysterics, if you install ANY program on your computer then you are
- at risk.. A game could have a bug in the high score routine and instead of
- recording the high scores it clears half the disk.
-
- >So lesee now....I have the virus program, the marker file/compression
- program,
- >the install program, the de-install program....
-
- Or, it could all be contained in the breeder virus which would then write all
- except the decompression routine into the marker, it could either give you a
- menu of choices or it could be all command line driven..
-
- >Manual? Which manual? The virus manual? Why make it a virus if you need
- >a manual to use it?
-
- Stop nitpicking, it could just be as simple as running the virus with -H as
- the flag.
-
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- Clayten_Hamacher@Mindlink.bc.ca Land of the rising snow.
-