Re: Future OS virus immunity.

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From: Vesselin Bontchev
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1993 16:55

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peter@ferranti.com (peter da silva) writes:

> The Amiga has even fewer viruses out than the Mac, despite some *lovely*
> hooks for viruses to hang from. It's simply a matter of popularity.

That's not true, sorry. It's exactly the other way around. There are
about 150 Amiga viruses and about 35 Mac viruses.

> UNIX viruses are by no means impossible... neither are viruses hidden in
> source code (do you REALLY read all of GCC?).

In fact, "source code viruses" already exist... even in MS-DOS. We
have here in our collection one shell script infector for Unix and
four BAT infectors for MS-DOS...

Regards,
Vesselin
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Vesselin Vladimirov Bontchev          Virus Test Center, University of Hamburg
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