A86: Re: Couple of questions...
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A86: Re: Couple of questions...
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Andy Johnson
"Change is inevitable...
except from vending machines"
On Tue, 31 Mar 1998 14:31:26 -0500 "Matt2000" <matt2000@gte.net> writes:
{snip}
>It [a virus] 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
Actually all virii are not TSRs, some simply attach their code to
programs, and whenever the program is run they spread, then shut down.
This wouldn't be hard at all on an 86, especially since ti included so
much stuff for asm programmers. (Though for some reason won't tell us
about it. Maybe ti's reluctance to provide information is to prevent
somebody from making a ti-virus, and to prevent some paranoid people from
buying HPs instead, though I doubt it).
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