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to: RICK COLLINS
from: PAUL WALKER
date: 1997-03-07 22:46:00
subject: Warning

Hi Rick,
Quoting Rick Collins to Curtis Canning, on 06 Mar 97
 rc>> There are _no_ AV programs that run on the operating systems I'm
 rc>> referring to, because there is _no_ chance of an infection
If you mean unix, I'm afraid there are...
 RC> they are unnecessary.  And, yes, a proper OS would prevent that
 RC> little piece of malware from doing any damage as well.
And so would most behaviour blockers (TbDisk? Not sure). 
 cc>> So that is why it is very dangerous, because most
 cc>> people like to run those advertising files.
Only after enabling full disk protection in various things, and having a 
uick
look at the code. (Well, I'm a programmer, I'm expected to be curious. :)
 CC>> a fully working version of a the same installation file
 CC>> which they made up, but it formats you hard drive instead.
Interesting description. Fully working - so it installs the thing, and then
reformats your hard disk... :)
Paul        (netmail to 2:440/410, til 14th March; then to 2:442/621.13)
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