From: Jonathan Berry (jberry_at_islandnet.com)
Date: Fri May 03 2002 - 16:32:46 EDT
In article <200204302115.g3ULFFi37930_at_pilot25.cl.msu.edu>,
"STeve Andre'" <andres_at_msu.edu> wrote:
>But a human-to-human protocol is far harder to spoof, and if you
>always used an exchange phrase (Froofinfratz!) in your message,
>a viri will have a far harder time figuring out how to deal with you
>and get you to open something.
But imagine a virus that waits until you send an attachment,
preserves the text part, but substitutes its own payload.
It seems to me that a step towards eliminating virii would be
if they could find (not sure how, but maybe through virus
checking programs, constructing a database, then working
backwards in time) where the virus originated. That might be
the smoking gun that points towards the author of the virus.
By comparison, you don't hear much about picking up viruses by
downloading executables from a web site. It's never happened
to me, anyway. Such executables would be traceable in a most
obvious way.
I'm still hoping for viruses that will do good. You know, a
virus that will remove adware and spyware from my machine with
no ill effects. Is there a Dennis Moore virus?
-- cheers Jonathan Berry http://www.islandnet.com/~jberry/ to know more than you want
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