Hello Robert,

 > potential virusi to the operating system. Anything that 
 > performs disk I/O, port level I/O etc. has the potential to 
 > bring ANY system to it knees. That potential, to the virus 
 > programmer, is the holy grail.

This has nothing to do with viruses actually. What you describe is more a
trojan than a virus. Under OS/2, a virus could be written in REXX if all it
has to do is reproduce itself.

 >  Frankly, instead of arguing "it can't happen..." we'd all be 
 > better off devising better detection methods in preparation 
 > for the day when it DOES happen, that day, is far to close 
 > already..

It has happened already. The "problem", from a virocentric point
of view, is only to have a big enough population to find carriers and have
a chance to spread.

Pierre Vandevenne - F-PROT Technical Support BENELUX & France

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