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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
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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.


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