Actually you are right the viruses today are really stupid, poorly written in a script language or even VB. They use in most cases user's stupidity persuade him to double click it and send it to a friend then to a internal really smart algorithm to propagate.
Maybe it will sound strange to you but I really miss the true viruses from the old DOS times. ---- No more 'I love you'. --- Cosmin Prund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Human wrote: > > It will be easy to auto check the CRC and display a message when something > > is wrong. > > The user will know about this and it will download/restore the program from > > a backup. > > > > > > A virus must be REALLY dumb not to be able to change a readonly file. > > :) > > > It's not that the virus is DUMB for not being able to change a readonly > file. It's just the fact that some viruses really need to be small. To > make code small you'll need to skip all sorts of things, possibly > including a read-only check! On the other hand a virus no longer needs > to be small and chances are most of them are no longer small. A 1Mb > "viri" can go unnoticed on todays HDD's with ease! > > And I did have success with such a "dumb" method of protection against a > loooong wave of viral infections! At some point it my read-only > applications were the only ones not infected on a fully infected system! > __________________________________________________ > Delphi-Talk mailing list -> Delphi-Talk@elists.org > http://www.elists.org/mailman/listinfo/delphi-talk > If I choose Christianity then the Islamic will say I'm a pagan. If I choose Islamic then the Buddhism will say I'm a pagan. If I chose Buddhism then the Jewish will say I'm pagan. If I choose no God then everybody will say I'm pagan. Please, can I be free? Can you NOT tell me how I should live MY life? __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com __________________________________________________ Delphi-Talk mailing list -> Delphi-Talk@elists.org http://www.elists.org/mailman/listinfo/delphi-talk
