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  > Considering the lack of decent virus scanners for OS/2 ...
ZZ>

  By this we are to assume that McAfee and Central Point are not
  "decent" ?

  Oh well ...

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  >       this is highly relevent even to OS/2, which does
  > have it's share of virus problems as well.
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  We had this thread years ago in the FIDONET VIRUS echo.

  It's actually quite difficult to write an OS/2 virus.  OS/2 programs
  cannot self-modify their code.  Running executables and DLLs cannot be
  written to whilst they are in use (which eliminates the possibility of
  infecting PMMERGE.DLL, for example).  It's not possible to access an
  active partition at low level (and the boot partition is *always*
  active).  It's almost impossible to stay resident and remain
  undetected, as the process and thread would show up in a process
  listing.  And with HPFS it's a lot more difficult to locate files
  physically on the disc.

  We came to the conclusion that an OS/2 virus would need to be so big
  that it would be obvious to the naked eye, and would be too great a
  technical challenge for a virus writer.

  Even DOS viruses have a hard time, since VDMs have this nasty habit of
  disappearing completely when you are finished with them (making
  Terminate and Stay Resident practically useless for a virus), and they
  don't share common global memory amongst themselves for viruses to
  lurk in.

  > JdeBP <
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