Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!mailrus!uwmcsd1!nic.MR.NET!umn-cs!ns!ddb From: ddb@ns.UUCP (David Dyer-Bennet) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: Are these binaries "safe"? Message-ID: <739@ns.UUCP> Date: 11 Aug 88 21:24:15 GMT References: <4774@csli.STANFORD.EDU> <30587@clyde.ATT.COM> <8475@ihlpb.ATT.COM> <569@rtg.cme-durer.ARPA> Organization: Network Systems Corp. Mpls MN Lines: 17 In article <569@rtg.cme-durer.ARPA>, brickman@cme-durer.ARPA (Jonathan E. Brickman) writes: > 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. While I've been lucky (and careful) enough not to get anything trashed by a trojan, I know lots of people who have. The discussion was about virus programs, not trojan horse programs. While I can see many ways to create a virus, and have seen published reports of their existence, I've never seen one, and I don't personally know anybody who has. The only reason this matters to me is that I'm trying to estimate, informally and just for my own interest, the virus population. Trojan horses are a dime a dozen. -- -- David Dyer-Bennet ...!{rutgers!dayton | amdahl!ems | uunet!rosevax}!umn-cs!ns!ddb ddb@Lynx.MN.Org, ...{amdahl,hpda}!bungia!viper!ddb Fidonet 1:282/341.0, (612) 721-8967 hst/2400/1200/300