Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!ihlpf!dwm From: dwm@ihlpf.ATT.COM (Meeks) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: Contributed software Message-ID: <6280@ihlpf.ATT.COM> Date: 28 Sep 88 21:29:43 GMT References: <8809272206.AA10295@drls21.sun.com> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories - Naperville, Illinois Lines: 17 In article <8809272206.AA10295@drls21.sun.com>, cacroft@drls21.mit.EDU (C. A. Croft[Cheryl]) writes: > Can someone help me with the following issue? > > One of the managers at my lab recently discovered PC viruses. As a result, > > 3) Failing the first two options, are there certain keywords (or something) > that one could search for in contributed code which would indicate ill > intentions somewhat faster than studying each line of code? Not with a C program atleast. There are several different ways of hiding ill intentions and it would take a great deal of time to find those that were meant to be hiden, even if you are looking for them. However, hiding ill intentions is a topic outside this news group. /Life\ Daniel W. Meeks Uucp : ...[att!]ihlpf!dwm /is a\ /Mountain.\_____ Let's go climbing! Naperville, Il 60566 ARPA : dwm@ihlpf.att.com