On Sep 11 12:36, 1997, Kurt Wismer of 1:259/423 wrote:
KW>  -=> Mocking Richard St. John to All <=-
KW>    
RSJ>> One of my employees is writing a paper on viruses, and wants to know
RSJ>> what people think is the 'worst' virus out there. Also wants to know
RSJ>> what people think a SUPER VIRUS would be able to do.
KW> worst as in "the greatest threat the computer world has ever known"? or
KW> worst as in "you call that a virus?"...
My "worst" is far more pedestrian:  a virus which randomly and occasionally 
changed a byte in a file - and did nothing else (except, of course, 
replicate).
A "supervirus" would do the above _and_ be "undetectable".
Trashed data on hard disks is an annoyance - but you can always recover from 
backups or re-installs.  _And_, you know something happened.  A virus that 
casually changed a value here and there in a .dat file or a .exe could go on 
providing misery for a _very_ long time _without_ raising undue suspicion.
Rick
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