Re: Absolute addresses, relative addresses

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From: Herman Grootaers
Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2003 07:24

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On Sat, 30 Aug 2003 02:58:09 +0000, Bjarni Juliusson wrote:

>>>What is a virus ? A program that duplicates itself and infests other
>>>computers in order to do nasty tasks without acceptance of the user.
>> 
>> Wrong. Some of the most succesful are propagated by people like us, through
>> email and general unhygenic file-swapping habits. Self-duplication has got
>> nothing to do with it. How about Nachi -- hey, it tried to fix things! Still
>> a virus though.
> 
> You're both wrong. A virus is a program that infects other programs. It 
> doesn't have to do anything else, but most do. Then there are programs 
> that propagate themselves by other means, copying themselves from one 
> machine to another. Those are worms. Then there is the kind that people 
> propagate unintentionally because they think they are benign programs. 
> Those are trojans. Then there is Outlook Express, but we're all familiar 
> with that and don't accidentally use it anymore.

LOL ;=)

Well, ther is something else with the last one. There is no
optimalisation done to it, so it can not be one of the former ones,
because the writers go to a great length to otimize their code, and they
maintain their work, by writing _better_ versions of it. But that goes
for all products of that company.

-- 
Herman Grootaers

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From: "Herman Grootaers" <h.grootaers@hccnet.nl>
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Subject: Re: Absolute addresses, relative addresses
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