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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!spool.mu.edu!think.com!enterpoop.mit.edu!eru.mt.luth.se!lunic!sunic!isgate!complex!frisk
  2. From: frisk@complex.is (Fridrik Skulason)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.security.misc
  4. Subject: Re: Future OS virus immunity.
  5. Message-ID: <184@complex.complex.is>
  6. Date: 2 Jan 93 10:14:18 GMT
  7. References: <eronald.725752239@ruble> <1hv07gINN3mn@rave.larc.nasa.gov> <1992Dec31.172536.16049@das.harvard.edu>
  8. Organization: Frisk Software International, Iceland
  9. Lines: 16
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  11. adam@endor.uucp (Adam Shostack) writes:
  12.  
  13. >available utility.  While I'm not as familiar with the PC world, there
  14. >seem to be at least 50 major strains of viruses, and I don't know of
  15. >any single program which can stop all of them.
  16.  
  17. 50 ?
  18.  
  19. 500 major strains (families), with around 2000 variants in total is more
  20. like it...
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  25. Fridrik Skulason      Frisk Software International     phone: +354-1-694749
  26. Author of F-PROT      E-mail: frisk@complex.is         fax:   +354-1-28801
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