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From: donw@zehntel (Don White)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: The Ultimate Fix!!!
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Date: 23 Sep 88 20:12:00 GMT
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Reply-To: donw@zehntel (Don White)
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[So far... ]

    So far, I have gotten about half a dozen replies telling me that my sanity
 is questionable for suggesting that the virus problem can be stopped. And yet,
 there HAS been some useful dialog.

    Here is an updated suggestion which I DARE you to find flawed. 1/2 ;-)

    If kickstart (both ROM and Disk) were distributed with a WORKBENCH checker
 you would be told automatically when your disk was not standard. If you have
 attempted to load a copy-protected program then you will simply accept that
 it is non-standard. And documentation should warn you that you are subject to
 having other disks harassed. There is NO WAY TO GET PAST THIS WARNING because
 it is in ROM or a write-protected kickstart. (System Master disks should be 
 distributed with NO WRITE PROTECT TABS!!! I.E ALWAYS PROTECTED!!!)

    This method would incur some cost. Any time Workbench changed, KickStart
 would have to be redistributed. But there would always be dependable warning
 when you first stuck a virused disk in your system. It would be READ before
 it was RUN. This insures that no bad code is executed!!

    Come on now! Wouldn't this work?

 Don White
 {ihnp4 | akgua | seismo}!zehntel!donw
 Box 271177 Concord, CA. 94527-1177

 P.S. Brian , I've tried to mail to you four times. No success. (Although,
 curiously, you CAN get mail through to me.) I guess I will just have to post
 the Lattice-ized Boing! to comp.sources.amiga. Oh well.