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
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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.

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