Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!mcvax!ukc!dcl-cs!nott-cs!pyr1.cs.ucl.ac.uk!awylie From: awylie@pyr1.cs.ucl.ac.uk Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Virus program warning Message-ID: <39500004@pyr1.cs.ucl.ac.uk> Date: 8 Dec 87 17:12:00 GMT References: <6146@jade.BERKELEY.EDU> Lines: 8 Nf-ID: #R:jade.BERKELEY.EDU:-614600:pyr1.cs.ucl.ac.uk:39500004:000:227 Nf-From: pyr1.cs.ucl.ac.uk!awylie Dec 8 17:12:00 1987 Presumably it would be relatively easy to modify the virus program to make it into an 'antibody' which would automatically overwrite the virus on any infected floppy which was used on the PC. Andrew Wylie awylie@uk.ac.ucl.cs