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In article <eronald.725752239@ruble> eronald@fml.tuwien.ac.at (Edmund Ronald) writes:
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> I am a Paris based computer-interest writer, and I need info about current
>trends on making operating systems virus-resistent. Could people tell me 
>what the lines of research are?

Viruses aren't a real problem in any system that has memory protection and
any way to prevent users from directly writing into system space.  In such
a system, a user would be able to destroy his own area, but wouldn't be
able to touch the OS.

There was a lot of research in the sixties on memory protection systems,
and most modern OS designs use some degree of per-process protection of
core and disk.

Unfortunately the two major microcomputer operating systems are still in
the early 60's level of technology.  This is a marketing problem, not
a technological one.  If people refused to use junk like MS-DOS and Mac OS,
viruses would be almost nonexistant.
--scott