Re: LZ: Virus


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Re: LZ: Virus



On Wed, 4 Sep 1996, Richard Coleman wrote:


> Is there anyway to create a virus in zshell, or on the calculator at all.  It would 
> be interesting to see what would happen.


It's not worth the effort.  A virus works by replicating itself.  On the 85,
the user would notice, or run out of memory.  Trojan horses are really easy.
The problem with both though, is that any sane ZShell user knows that a
misbehaved program can reset his/her calc so he/she keeps a backup on their
computer.


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