Henrik Olsen wrote:
>
> On Mon, 8 May 2000, Dave Mullen wrote:
> > I was thinking more in terms of ...
> >
> > Let's assume that every cycle of the LL test for M(M(19)), we took the
> > LSB and wrote it to a file - you might find the code for the virus
> > there !
> Chance is still way off, virus was about 14kB, giving a 1 in 2^120000
> chance of seeing it each iteration, compare that to the 2^19 iterations
> taken for the M(M(19)) and you see how far off you are.
>
> > (Remember that Bill Gates seems to do this with every application he
> > creates - whatever the glitch, error, design flaw, overflow condition,
> > why does it always manage to save as a file and then get executed ?)
> That's because he seems unable to produce an application that doesn't
> include a Turing Complete language with file write rights.
>
> > btw, I'm on 21 months now without work, the money is running out, and
> > only the Mersenne mails and Discworld MUD keep me alive !
> Careful, that MUD can be awfully addictive as I can attest with 129 DAYS
> of accumulated online time (I'm Olorin there)
>
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Dave
Let's assume that the prime forms some viral code... IT WILL NOT BE
EXECUTED!
There will probably be bluescreen / core dump code in that memory all
the time
but it just will not be executed.
Martijn
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