Re: Incompatibility announcement

[nathan@visi.com (Nathan Mates)]

In article <4v8j8t$rdi@news.vanderbilt.edu>,
Tilghman Lesher <lesherjt@vuse.vanderbilt.edu> wrote:
>GS Spy seems to be a rather useful little init, detecting possible
>viruses; could it be modified to interact correctly with File-A-Trix?

   Does the phrase "Security through obscurity" mean anything to you?
There are fewer GS viruses than the fingers on one hand, and zero of
them are known to be in public distribution. With the IBM PC and
Macintosh a far more appealing prospect, those systems collected all
the viruses.

   GS Spy has always been a program which provides a useless sense of
security (tip: if I or someone else with a clue wrote a GS virus, I'd
rip apart GS Spy and shut it up before nuking the HD anyhow) at the
cost of being incompatible with other systems. The chances of getting
a GS virus are infenitesimal compared to getting one for a PC or
Mac.

Nathan "Yeah, yeah, famous last words and all that" Mates

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