Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cbmvax!andy From: andy@cbmvax.UUCP (Andy Finkel) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: The ultimate fix!!! Message-ID: <4861@cbmvax.UUCP> Date: 28 Sep 88 21:29:24 GMT References: <681@zehntel.UUCP> <3084@hermes.ai.mit.edu> <4197@thorin.cs.unc <4374@thorin.cs.unc.edu> <2689@sugar.uu.net> Reply-To: andy@cbmvax.UUCP (Andy Finkel) Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA Lines: 25 In article <2689@sugar.uu.net> peter@sugar.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes: >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 Actually, its more like a time bomb, or a worm. It wasn't a replicating program from the reports I got; just a program that needed to be reset every once in awhile or else it started up, and did bad things to the file system. >Or run a protected operating system like UNIX, where a virus has a *much* harder >time of it. Since the bug was introduced by one of their programmers, being protected wouldn't have helped much. -- andy finkel {uunet|rutgers|amiga}!cbmvax!andy Commodore-Amiga, Inc. "If we can't fix it, it ain't broke." Any expressed opinions are mine; but feel free to share. I disclaim all responsibilities, all shapes, all sizes, all colors.