Re: Future OS virus immunity.

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From: Vesselin Bontchev
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 18:50

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bontchev@fbihh.informatik.uni-hamburg.de (Vesselin Bontchev) writes:

> :-). You are off by a factor of ten... Currently we recognize at least
> 592 different virus families for MS-DOS... They might be slightly more
> - something about 600, but you get the idea... The last time I looked,

Oops, silly me, I completely forgot the 56 families of boot sector
viruses... :-)

Regards,
Vesselin
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Vesselin Vladimirov Bontchev          Virus Test Center, University of Hamburg
Tel.:+49-40-54715-224, Fax: +49-40-54715-226      Fachbereich Informatik - AGN
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