Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!ginosko!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!polyslo!vlsi3b15!vax1.cc.lehigh.edu!sei.cmu.edu!krvw From: JS05STAF%MIAMIU.BITNET@VMA.CC.CMU.EDU (Joe Simpson) Newsgroups: comp.virus Subject: Anti-virus virus Message-ID: <0006.8909251241.AA29279@ge.sei.cmu.edu> Date: 22 Sep 89 21:02:39 GMT Sender: Virus Discussion ListLines: 13 Approved: krvw@sei.cmu.edu Recently another proposal to create an anti-virus virus was made on valert-l. I posted a note that discussion belonged in virus-l and that I would be responding here. [Ed. Thank you!] Concerning writing an anti-virus virus. Such an entity would make unauthorized use of equipment not owned or operated by this virus's creator. The creator would be acting in just as immoral a fashion as the creators of joke, political, or deliberately desctructive viruses. In fact, I prefer not to make moral judgements based upon the intent of the virus creator. I would prefer that they simply refrain from this anti-social behavior no matter what the motivation.