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
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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.