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- Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk
- Path: sparky!uunet!gatech!emory!nastar!phardie
- From: phardie@nastar.uucp (Pete Hardie)
- Subject: Re: Beneficial Virus?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan12.153916.10918@nastar.uucp>
- Organization: Digital Transmission Systems, Duluth, GA.
- References: <19531@mindlink.bc.ca>
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 15:39:16 GMT
- Lines: 34
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- In article <19531@mindlink.bc.ca> Clayten_Hamacher@mindlink.bc.ca (Clayten Hamacher) writes:
- >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.
-
- So if I follow this, the breeder resides in an executable, and contains the
- code for marker file, virus replication, and compression/decompression,
- correct?
-
- How does a file get compressed without running the marker file and
- ending up with a full virus?
-
- How does this breeder virus spread?
-
- >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.
-
- But does it spread on its own? If not, we start to push the definition of
- virus.
-
-
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