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- From: bontchev@fbihh.informatik.uni-hamburg.de (Vesselin Bontchev)
- Subject: Re: Future OS virus immunity.
- Message-ID: <bontchev.725827859@fbihh>
- Sender: news@informatik.uni-hamburg.de (Mr. News)
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- Organization: Virus Test Center, University of Hamburg
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- Date: 31 Dec 92 18:50:59 GMT
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- bontchev@fbihh.informatik.uni-hamburg.de (Vesselin Bontchev) writes:
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- > :-). You are off by a factor of ten... Currently we recognize at least
- > 592 different virus families for MS-DOS... They might be slightly more
- > - something about 600, but you get the idea... The last time I looked,
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- Oops, silly me, I completely forgot the 56 families of boot sector
- viruses... :-)
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- Regards,
- Vesselin
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