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- From: adam@endor.uucp (Adam Shostack)
- Newsgroups: comp.security.misc
- Subject: Re: Future OS virus immunity.
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.172536.16049@das.harvard.edu>
- Date: 31 Dec 92 17:25:36 GMT
- References: <eronald.725752239@ruble> <1hv07gINN3mn@rave.larc.nasa.gov>
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- Organization: Aiken Computation Lab, Harvard University
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- In article <1hv07gINN3mn@rave.larc.nasa.gov> kludge@grissom.larc.nasa.gov (Scott Dorsey) writes:
- >In article <eronald.725752239@ruble> eronald@fml.tuwien.ac.at (Edmund Ronald) writes:
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- >Unfortunately the two major microcomputer operating systems are still in
- >the early 60's level of technology. This is a marketing problem, not
- >a technological one. If people refused to use junk like MS-DOS and Mac OS,
- >viruses would be almost nonexistant.
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- I agree in principle that the Mac OS & MS-Dos by their lack of
- protection, make viruses easy to spread. However, there are less than
- 20 viruses for the mac, all of which can be stopped by a freely
- available utility. While I'm not as familiar with the PC world, there
- seem to be at least 50 major strains of viruses, and I don't know of
- any single program which can stop all of them.
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- Does anyone care to comment on why there are so many more MS-Dos
- viruses out there, and there doesn't seem to be any universally
- accepted tool (like Disinfectant) to stop viruses. Or is this a false
- impression because I use a mac and have taken the time to find out
- about the tools available?
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- Adam Shostack adam@das.harvard.edu
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- What a terrible thing to have lost one's .sig. Or not to have a .sig
- at all. How true that is.
-