26 Jun 97 13:38, Kurt Wismer wrote to Paul Walker:
KW>> 1) a virus is a program, stored on erasable magnetic media - NOT
PW>> Not always ... they've been burned onto CD-ROMs before, remember?
KW> oops, you're right, i made an over generalization... hmmm... viruses
KW> are stored on distributable computer media? hmmmm....
Still too broad -- it could be non-distributable, like those old
dishwasher-sized HDs. Nor does it have to be computer media -- Good Times
spread by word of mouth, too.
Hmm, okay.
"At its most basic level, a '[computer] virus' is a pattern that causes other
incidences of its pattern to manifest."
Asher Densmore-Lynn
... Caesarean Section.. A district in Rome.
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