Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!cme-durer!brickman From: brickman@cme-durer.ARPA (Jonathan E. Brickman) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: Are these binaries "safe"? Message-ID: <569@rtg.cme-durer.ARPA> Date: 10 Aug 88 19:11:20 GMT References: <4774@csli.STANFORD.EDU> <30587@clyde.ATT.COM> <8475@ihlpb.ATT.COM> <727@ns.UUCP> Reply-To: brickman@rtg (Jonathan E. Brickman) Organization: The National Bureau of Standards Lines: 9 In article <727@ns.UUCP> ddb@ns.UUCP (David Dyer-Bennet) writes: >believe in viruses in theory, and I believe that they exist in >pracice, but I've never actually seen any evidence for their >existence. Perhaps you have never had occasion to have your system crash and disk(s) wiped and/or corrupted by a virus; lucky you. I have. When one makes a practice of trying out each and every good-looking (from descriptions) PD program on all local BBS's and NETs, one finds that viruses are not imaginary.