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- From: johnt@ee.ubc.ca (John Jay G. Tanlimco)
- Subject: Re: Virus Programs ForSale (Virus,Trojan,etc)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.175014.18494@ee.ubc.ca>
- Organization: University of BC, Electrical Engineering
- References: <1jn8k8INNicb@mirror.digex.com> <7490@ucsbcsl.ucsb.edu>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 17:50:14 GMT
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- In article <7490@ucsbcsl.ucsb.edu> lsnyder@fig.ucsb.edu (Lowell R. Snyder,,,COMS,Undergraduate) writes:
- >In article <1jn8k8INNicb@mirror.digex.com> alby@access.digex.com (Albatross) writes:
- >> VIRUS'es FOR SALE
- >> ----------------------------------
- >
- >As a computer security professional, I must object to this posting as an
- >obvious attempt to make money off a bad sitation, buy making the situation
- >even worse! Only a fool would buy a virus just to see if the AV product
- >works, because if the AV does not work, that person is even more screwed
- >than he was to begin with.
- >
- >And as to your legal disclaimer at the bottom, I will sue you in civil
- >court for the intentional spread of a virus if any of the the computers
- >I am responsible for are infected as a result of this post!
-
- I, too, don't approve of the posting. But, what are the chances of you
- winning in court? From the posting, it seems legal, although unethical.
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