Re: virus: anti-virus

Eva-Lise Carlstrom (eva-lise@efn.org)
Thu, 3 Dec 1998 09:19:50 -0800 (PST)


On Wed, 2 Dec 1998, sodom wrote:

> A few days ago - someone asked about an hoax virus meme, and how to tell
> people effectivly that they were passing the virus about. This subject
> came to light a few months ago, and Richard Brodie put up a page to deal
> with the bogus virus meme. I have been pointing people to this page and
> have gotten good responses from it.
>
> http://www.brodietech.com/antidote.htm
>
> Bill Roh
> Sodom

I did take another look at this for this purpose, and it does address
one aspect of the issue, but it's rather less specific than I had in mind.
I want something that specifically discusses virus warnings (not just
mentions them), including why the commonly encountered warnings are likely
to be bogus: no attribution of original warning, no date, no explanation
of how such a virus could possibly function, etc.

Somewhere along the way I suspect I encountered such a thing, as I am now
highly resistant to virus warnings.

--Eva