henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) (11/15/88)
In article <32440@oliveb.olivetti.com> jerry@olivey.UUCP (Jerry Aguirre) writes: >>>How does one debug a virus? >> On an isolated network of machines, obviously. >There are simpler ways than dedicating a group of systems and the >network connecting them. The most obvious is to criple the virus (or >worm) so it can't live on normal systems... Ah, but this brings us back to the Morris-Jr Fallacy: "of course it won't cause any real trouble, I wrote it not to". Debugging on an isolated network protects the rest of the world from your mistakes as well as your deliberate experiments. -- Sendmail is a bug, | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology not a feature. | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu