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Article #5322RE: Viruses and Copyrights (Part 2)
From: David.M.Chess
Date: Mon, 05 Mar 1990 05:00
Date: Mon, 05 Mar 1990 05:00
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Olivier Crepin-Leblond <ZDEE699@ELM.CC.KCL.AC.UK> writes: > The Brain virus was written by Mohammed Farooq Alvi in Lahore > (Pakistan) and was used initially to protect their own software from > being pirated. This is a myth, I think. I can't think of any feature of the virus that would help protect software from being pirated. Viruses are basically irrelevant to copy-protection. DC
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