Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!cbmvax!heimat!sneakers
From: sneakers@heimat.UUCP (Dan "Sneakers" Schein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Virus eradication (Re: Stamp out Zeroes!)
Message-ID: <1824.AA1824@heimat>
Date: 10 Aug 88 03:04:21 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga
Organization: Sneakers Computing
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In Message <600@super.ORG>, rminnich@super.ORG (Ronald G Minnich) writes:

>In article <1377@datapg.MN.ORG> sewilco@datapg.MN.ORG (Scot E. Wilcoxon) writes:
>>A permanent part of the no-MMU computer scene.  When purchasers get frightened
>>enough of viruses they'll buy more machines with MMUs and operating systems
>>which support them.
>Hmm, i think if you think about that long enough, you'll realize that 
>it helps, but it will not eradicate viruses. I refer you to Ken Thompson's
>ACM talk of a few years back for one view of that subject; also
>try to get an account of what happened to Gould when they offered
>a color tv to anyone who could break their 'b2' system. 
>Hint: they had to give away a color tv.
>   MMUs help; you can't eradicate viruses with them, i think.
>
  Boy I couldn't agree more. The #1 important thing to remember here is that
  programmers (IE: people) design the software & hardware to catch/stop a
  virus -= AND =- hackers (IE: programmers) design the viruses (sp?) and trojan
  horses. So like Unix's protection - theres always a hole somewhere to be
  filled by either the programmer or hacker :-)

>ron

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