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echo: virus_info
to: BILL CLARK
from: KLAUS KULBARSCH
date: 1997-12-28 11:25:00
subject: Virii (I think)

Hi Bill!
Answering a message from Bill Clark to Klaus Kulbarsch:
 KK>> This is a contradiction in terms. A computer-virus is defined as
 KK>> self-replicating code, started by a host-program without knowledge of
 KK>> the user.
 KK>> Thus it occupies HD-space, steels CPU-time - mostly without my
 KK>> knowledge.
 BC> Hmmm... Once you _know_ it's there, it is no longer a virus?
;-). Interesting point. Never thought in this way for myself.
It's still a virus I think.
Greetings from Wiesmoor (Germany)
Klaus
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