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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 06:20:44 GMT
- Message-ID: <19533@mindlink.bc.ca>
- Sender: news@deep.rsoft.bc.ca (Usenet)
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- >>>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.
-
- If you never import any files then you need not worry about getting the
- virus, it wouldn't spread over networks so the only way to get it would be to
- d/l a file that someone put on a BBS or FTP site etc..
-
- >>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 invaders clone.
- >
- >It's easier policy to say: "No games allowed on this machine"
-
- Are you purposely being dense? It could be in any anything, a spell checker,
- accounting software, 3d rendering software, etc.. (Besides, try to actually
- make people obey that rule).
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- Clayten_Hamacher@Mindlink.bc.ca Land of the rising snow.
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