Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!bellcore!tness7!tness1!sugar!peter From: peter@sugar.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: The ultimate fix!!! Message-ID: <2689@sugar.uu.net> Date: 27 Sep 88 22:43:31 GMT References: <681@zehntel.UUCP> <3084@hermes.ai.mit.edu> <4197@thorin.cs.unc <4374@thorin.cs.unc.edu> Organization: Sugar Land Unix - Houston, TX Lines: 17 In article <4374@thorin.cs.unc.edu>, bell@unc.cs.unc.edu (Andrew Bell) writes: > 'Taint a virus, that's a Trojan Horse. Nope, it's a virus. A trojan horse is a technique which you can use to get a virus into another computer, and it's the way most viruses... including the Amiga bootblock viruses... work. A virus is any program that hides in a computer system and replicates itself. > You really want your system code on a write-protectable medium if you want > hardware virus/Trojan Horse protection, and even that only keeps your system > uncorrupted. Or run a protected operating system like UNIX, where a virus has a *much* harder time of it. -- Peter da Silva `-_-' peter@sugar.uu.net Have you hugged U your wolf today?