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echo: virus_info
to: KURT WISMER
from: STEVE BENNETT
date: 1997-04-20 22:57:00
subject: Re: Linux and viruses...

Hi Kurt,
  Just would like to pick a hole...
>- Speaking of Linux and viruses..., Kurt Wismer said this to Denis Moreaux 
on 15 Apr 97  09:28 -<
 KW> no such thing as java viruses, only bad java applets... as for active
 KW> x, i've not heard of any viruses and i doubt there are any at
Are you sure there are no java viruses?  Because there really are two sorts
of java.  There's internet (netscape) java, then there's Java as a real
language, just like C (but higher level), which I think has disk access
etc...so I think you could write a virus in it, could you not?
Steve
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