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In article <5896@m1.cs.man.ac.uk> sks@fiveg.icl.co.uk (Steve Smith) writes:
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>What if someone were to write an anti-virus virus. (very old)
>Not an innoculator against 1 particular virus but something like Protector that looks for strange writes to disk, lengthening of files etc and gives the user a warning. But unlike Protector and other such virus checkers is actually a virus so you don't install it yourself and it spreads around the world copying itself and hopefully protecting your machine!
*Very* *dangerous*, somebody would be bound to modify it to be
malignant; also, it might meet a situation were someone was trying to
do something quite legitimate, that it objected to...
(An aside: please try to keep lines to less 73 characters, or at least
not have them wrap mid word - especially when quoted.)
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>P.S. Punishment for virus writers ... make them use an Atari ST with the SEKA assembler.
A better idea!
Gavin
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