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On Wed, 23 Feb 2000 18:09:59 GMT, "Andrew Jones"
<luminous-is AT home DOT com> wrote:

>> What virus does work on Linux or any other protected OS?  Is that why
>> there has never been an antivirus product for BSD, UNIX, or GNU?
>
>Windows is a protected OS <cough>

Any OS with a nearptr hack is not a protected OS.  A malicious
program can just nearptr all the RAM and infect (erm, "patch")
the code that handles the "launch application" API call.

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