iphwk%MTSUNIX1.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu (Bill Kinnersley) (08/06/88)
[In "Re: Stamp out Zeroes!", Jim Blandy said:] > > In article <3613@louie.udel.EDU> you write: > > > >Viruses can be written to hitch a ride on any executable, not just the > >boot block. And with a nice block of zeroes waiting, > > > >char buf[1000]; > > Actually, I don't think your worries apply to executables. That array > would get stored as a BSS hunk, i.e. a hunk containing only the size > of the space to be allocated and cleared, not a whole slew of zeros. > The body of the hunk would be one longword, four bytes. No space to > store a virus. > > I'm afraid I think you're barking at the moon. > You're absolutely right. And I went off half-cocked too. My apologies. --Bill K.