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- From: betsys@cs.umb.edu (Elizabeth Schwartz)
- Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk
- Subject: Re: Beneficial Virus?
- Message-ID: <BETSYS.93Jan12025335@ra.cs.umb.edu>
- Date: 12 Jan 93 07:53:35 GMT
- References: <BETSYS.93Jan5233720@ra.cs.umb.edu> <m093wB2w165w@ruth.UUCP>
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- Organization: University of Massachusetts at Boston
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- In-Reply-To: rat@ruth.UUCP's message of 9 Jan 93 02: 40:09 GMT
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- PS in answer to your other question, "hidden decompression code
- attached to executables....self-extracting archives" is not a problem
- because self-extracting archives do what they claim to do, decompress
- themselves, and don't go messing with other files on my system.
- If they DID *offer* to compress other files, we are back at the
- "novel installation method." If they messed with other files *without*
- saying so, we are back to the "bad" virus.
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