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Article #5038Spafford's and WHMurray's "Theorems"
From: David.M..Chess
Date: Wed, 03 Jan 1990 00:00
Date: Wed, 03 Jan 1990 00:00
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Shouldn't these really be called "Hypotheses", or something along that
line? They've certainly not been proven! *8)
William Murray suggests some more, including:
> 6. The current vector for viruses is floppy disks and diskettes, not
> programs. That is to say, it is the media, rather than the programs,
> that are moving and being shared.
That's not particularly true, I don't think. Both disk/ette based
and program based viruses are spreading at the moment. The most
widespread virus in the PC area is the 1813 ("Jerusalem"), which is
program-based; its vector is program files (generally .EXE or .COM),
not media.
DC
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