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- From: dbh@doc.ic.ac.uk (Denis Howe)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
- Subject: Re: VIRUS (Authorities ?)y
- Message-ID: <DBH.92Aug27150939@wombat.doc.ic.ac.uk>
- Date: 27 Aug 92 14:09:39 GMT
- References: <1992Aug24.091920.10306@waikato.ac.nz>
- <1992Aug24.102643.10310@waikato.ac.nz>
- <1992Aug24.164928.9467@csi.on.ca> <5896@m1.cs.man.ac.uk>
- Organization: Computing Department, Imperial College, London, UK
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- In-reply-to: sks@cs.man.ac.uk's message of 25 Aug 92 09:03:51 GMT
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- In article <5896@m1.cs.man.ac.uk> sks@cs.man.ac.uk (Steve Smith) wrote:
-
- >What if someone were to write an anti-virus virus. (very old). Not
- >an inoculator 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!
-
- A very stupid idea.
-
- Many current viruses are not particularly harmful but a virus like
- Steve is suggesting, however useful the author thought it was, would
- still be extremely annoying and almost certainly illegal. Apart from
- the dangers Gavin mentions (false alarms and becoming a Trojan horse),
- what good is an anti-virus program which *might* protect you if you
- happen to get it?
-
- I just hope nobody else out there is this stupid.
- --
- Denis Howe <dbh@doc.ic.ac.uk>
- So Biggs, you're the idiot who bought all these IBM PCs. You're fired!
-
- --
- Denis Howe <dbh@doc.ic.ac.uk>
- So Biggs, you're the idiot who bought all these IBM PCs. You're fired!
-