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Re: Virus kills virus ....

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From: Ken Bibb
Date: Sat, 14 Mar 1992 05:08
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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.
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From: jester@crash.cts.com (Ken Bibb)
Subject: Re: Virus kills virus ....
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Date: Sat, 14 Mar 1992 05:08:02 GMT
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