Re: A question for the list...

["Anders Reed Mohn" <anders_rm () utepils com>]

> there is even a potential legal issue either, for that matter.  As the
virus
> reaches out for an update from a known location, here there was the
> opportunity to cause the virus to elegantly commit suicide; there is no way
> that the code would accidentally be run on an uninfected machine except
with
> the direct participation of that machine's owner.


But what makes you trust the code that is downloaded? I can picture
plenty of commercial or malignent/hostile, uses for such an automatically
downloaded update.


Cheers,
Anders :)


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