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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: <1993Jan12.160243.11069@nastar.uucp>
- Organization: Digital Transmission Systems, Duluth, GA.
- References: <19532@mindlink.bc.ca>
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 16:02:43 GMT
- Lines: 36
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- In article <19532@mindlink.bc.ca> Clayten_Hamacher@mindlink.bc.ca (Clayten Hamacher) writes:
- >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.
-
- True enough. However, I do feel that a 'beneficial' virus has the new
- danger of making people complacent about secure computing, thus lessening
- their safety.
-
- >>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..
-
- If I have to type "BCV run", it's not viral anymore - it's a system utility.
-
- >>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.
-
- See above. If it does not run on its own, unassisted, it ain't no virus. If
- the BCV is really a self-installing compression utility that needs to be
- invoked with the name of the file to attach to, it is really a worm version
- of PKZIP.
-
-
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- Digital Transmission Systems, Inc., Duluth GA
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