Re: A question for the list...

From: Anders Reed Mohn (anders_rm_at_utepils.com)
Date: 05/20/03

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Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 13:58:36 +0200

    >there is even a potential legal issue either, for that matter. As the
    virus
    >reaches out for an update from a known location, here there was the
    >opportunity to cause the virus to elegantly commit suicide; there is no way
    >that the code would accidentally be run on an uninfected machine except
    with
    >the direct participation of that machine's owner.

    But what makes you trust the code that is downloaded? I can picture
    plenty of commercial or malignent/hostile, uses for such an automatically
    downloaded update.

    Cheers,
    Anders :)

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