Re: Virus-- suggestion!

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From: Andreas Toenne
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 1988 12:45

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In article <1288@uop.edu> exodus@uop.edu (EXODUS) writes:
>Okay, think about this one for a while:
>
>What if someone wrote a 'friendly' virus.  One that fixed the bugs in the
>Operating System.  One that multiplied so everyone's bugs were fixed. 
>Free, fast, effective.  

Hmm? A friendly virus! :-)
Every program that installs on my machine without my knowledge is
	U N F R I E N D L Y !

Imagine I got a program that depends on those bugs or tries to fix
those bugs by himself.
This won't work anymore!

A friend of mine uses a disk encryption program. He caught a virus and
cannot decrypt his disks anymore. Even when that virus was meant to be
friendly and helpfull, my friend doesn't think so.

	Andreas Toenne

BWT. someone offered a virus construction kit and a killer for those
viruses at the CBit fair in Hannover, W-Germany.
Has anyone more information about this virus kit?

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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!mcvax!unido!laura!atoenne
From: atoenne@laura.UUCP (Andreas Toenne)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Virus--  suggestion!
Message-ID: <254@laura.UUCP>
Date: 22 Mar 88 12:45:58 GMT
References: <1288@uop.edu>
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Organization: University of Dortmund, W-Germany
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Keywords: virus, GEMDOS, atari

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