Re: Future OS virus immunity.

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From: Fridrik Skulason
Date: Sat, 02 Jan 1993 10:14

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adam@endor.uucp (Adam Shostack) writes:

>available utility.  While I'm not as familiar with the PC world, there
>seem to be at least 50 major strains of viruses, and I don't know of
>any single program which can stop all of them.

50 ?

500 major strains (families), with around 2000 variants in total is more
like it...


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Subject: Re: Future OS virus immunity.
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Date: 2 Jan 93 10:14:18 GMT
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