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jester@crash.cts.com (Ken Bibb) writes:

>In <pmq6sINNoau@agate.berkeley.edu> chiachi@soda.berkeley.edu (Chiachi Hung) writes:

>>About all kind of viruses happened these years, why there is nobody can
>>develop a viruslike "anti-virus" which will transfer and spread itself all 
>>over the computers just like what normal virus does, but attacking the other
>>viruses, and this virus itself does not do any bad thing to the computers.
>>Would be possible to make this kind of anti-virus?  I am really wondering.

>This would, of course, be easy to do--no one's done it yet though, because
>it would have to be a large program (to handle all of the different virii)
>and because the type of person most interested in writing virii are young
>kids who like doing destructive things.

I've been hearing this for years now and I wonder why it's not obvious
to those asking the question.

If someone writes an anti-virus something, 1) he wants to sell it.

If someone writes an anti-virus virus, it's still a virus.  Why risk
lawsuits and imprisonment when you could have sold it!

Last, an anti-virus program is only as good as the viruses it knows about.
It just won't know about the viruses that come out after it does.

Jimmy Kuo
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cjkuo@locus.com
"The correct answer to an either/or question is both!"