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So... picture this: Virus that waits | 478 comments | Create New Account
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So... picture this: Virus that waits
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 08 2012 @ 09:30 AM EDT

You're still missing the human element and the creative element of those that wish to author viruses.

Human element: Individual leaves the switch set to write, or changes it to write as soon as they boot up Windows so they don't have to keep toggeling it every few minutes (system needs to write to download email, needs to write when someone wants to rip a music cd, etc).

Creative element: Virus gathers it's info and lies in wait till the toggle is switched, then writes.

RAS

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I'm just going to add: these are examples
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 08 2012 @ 11:55 AM EDT

And I think I've provided enough examples to show how people can code around the suggested solutions being presented. I'll pass on responding to anymore suggested solutions with how easy they will be to work around.

The bottom line is the very basic logic:

    If I, the user, have authorization to do something to the computer
then
    A software program "pretending" to be me is authorized to do that something
The difference being whether or not I, the user, actually intended to do that something.

Even if all you can do is query... then a virus can be authored which can then flood said system with queries - a DOS.

Since the logic above is in-escapable, the only virus-proof computer is one where no one has authorization to do anything!

RAS

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