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Article #526Re: Virus thought
From: William J. Lipa
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 1989 22:13
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 1989 22:13
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In article <4018@tank.uchicago.edu> stel@tank.uchicago.edu (stelios valavanis) writes: >With all this talk about this virus and that virus eliminator, and >with this resource that some curing progs put into the sys to prevent >virus, I got to thinking (dangerous). Couldn't a virus call itself by >the name of this friendly anti-virus resource replacing the good one >if it is there? Probably not. The "friendly" nVIR resource installed by KillVirus has size 0, so anti-virus programs can specifically check whether the resource is friendly or hostile by examining the size. Bill
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!apple!bionet!agate!shelby!polya!lipa From: lipa@polya.Stanford.EDU (William J. Lipa) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Virus thought Message-ID: <10182@polya.Stanford.EDU> Date: 22 Jun 89 22:13:54 GMT References: <4018@tank.uchicago.edu> Sender: William J. Lipa <lipa@polya.Stanford.EDU> Reply-To: lipa@polya.Stanford.EDU (William J. Lipa) Organization: Stanford University Lines: 12