Re: A86: Re: Re: Couple of questions...


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Re: A86: Re: Re: Couple of questions...





>ok if you dont think theyre viriii then why does antivirus software look
for
>them too? shouldnt there be antitrojan software... they are defined as a
>virus, any nimrod knows that, go look it up on a hpavc page and youll see
>trojans in the v section
>
>>Viruses and Trojan horses are unrelated concepts and are
>>only linked by their usually harmful or destructive nature.


Well unrelated is going to far. When people generally refer to viruses, they
cover standard viruses, worms, trojan horses, etc, etc. I would say a virus
is the category, and which kind (regular, worm, trojan, etc) would be a
sub-category... Technically you may be correct...

However, a standard virus that stays in memory is by far the most advanced.
It basically is a TSR with an attitude. I dont see how this could be done
with the TI-86, except maybe interrupts.. that would seem to slow it down.
And being able to spread the virus by transferring programs would be an
amazing accomplishment, but that would seem to take a lot of disassembling

-Matt