-=> Mocking Berk Ozbozkurt to Larry Keenan <=-
   
 BO>> it seems impossible that after unzipping something you get a
 BO>> virus.. but it is not impossible to get a boot sector virus from
 LK> It is not impossible to get a virus simply by unzipping something. You
 LK> can also activate a virus by copying a file. Some boot sector files
 BO> It is possible to activate a virus by simply unzipping an archive or
 BO> copying a file, if you use word 'activation' in the following sense:
 BO> There is a virus in memory which is waiting for some particular action
this is VERY misleading... a) you're giving the impression that you can
spread a virus by unzipping it (as most people think of activation as
the primary execution of the virus, not the secondary triggering of a
payload) - consider the word, activate means that something becomes
active, as in it wasn't active before it activated, as in it couldn't do
anything before it activated...
b) that isn't really the virus that is being activated but some part of
the code included with the virus... a virus, all by itself waits for
nothing except new hosts for it's offspring...
 BO> after which it will do some nasty things (like writing a message or
 BO> formatting hd) and when this happens it 'activates'; but I did not
 BO> mean activation of an existing virus, I was talking about a new
 BO> infection. 
if the virus was in memory, then the infection was already existing, and
thus not new...
... using VCL is programming vicariously through others...
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