At 08:16 PM 10/14/1999 -0400, Laurel wrote:
\>themselves..) As long as its done right, there's no reason a virus
>can't be cross-platform and portable. (Ok, this is nontrivial. but it
>is possible.)
>
Actually, there are over 3,000 "cross-platform" viruses -- the MS macro
viruses (about 45 of which are actually bug free and work) work on both
Wintel and Mac machines which have the correctr MS Office application,
For those who are interested, the newsgroup alt.comp.virus is very good for
keeping up on what is going on in the world of Av and viruses. It is about
50% signal, too.....
Janus
who has been interested in AV and VX since cleaning 1001 broken files off a
486 in 1993
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