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Article #7017Re: Viruses
From: L.J.Dickey
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 1990 15:37
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 1990 15:37
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In article <21702@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> cr1@beach.cis.ufl.edu (Chris Roth) writes:
| I have heard of things called antibodies, that sit in
| your boot sector and do something like flash the screen . The idea
| being that if a virus hits and writes over the antibody, you will
| notice the screen not flashing.
This is the first I have heard of this idea, and I find it interesting.
But I think it would drive me crazy.
Does anyone have experience with something like this?
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L. J. Dickey, Faculty of Mathematics, University of Waterloo.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!iuvax!maytag!water!ljdickey From: ljdickey@water.waterloo.edu (L.J.Dickey) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Viruses Keywords: virus, antibody Message-ID: <2900@water.waterloo.edu> Date: 15 Jan 90 15:37:21 GMT References: <21702@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> Reply-To: ljdickey@water.waterloo.edu (L.J.Dickey) Organization: U. of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 19