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In article <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.

1) You must realize that the "biological" analogy and terminology are bogus.
Sorry no bacteriophages, no antibodies (maybe, the users are the antibodies),
etc. here, just programs.

2) What you want here is a program which can identify malacious intent.
The problem of "attack" so far has been simple: remove the bad process.
Unfortunately, most systems have processes and programs which have
similar behavior (would you remove 'rm' (hum, /bin/rm /bin/rm) from your
system or any program which uses rm?).

And these are just simple measures.  Future offensive "military-class"
software weaponery would likely incorporate more insidious features
(I can think of three right now).

--eugene miya, NASA Ames Research Center, eugene@orville.nas.nasa.gov
  Resident Cynic, Rock of Ages Home for Retired Hackers
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Ref: Mathematics and Plausible Reasoning, vol. 1, G. Polya