Re: A86: SLP

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Subject: Re: A86: SLP
From: Dux Gregis <assets@eden.rutgers.edu>
Date: Thu, 09 Apr 1998 17:00:29 -0400
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J Boylan wrote:

> >Besides, it doesn't look very possible for
> >viri to be spread using the slink routine.
>
> But couldn't a program be written that would poll the link port checking to
> see if a calc was connected?

It doesn't matter.  The recieving calc would have to send the virus -- the
sending calc would then have to recieve the virus while it's sending, which
just isn't possible.

If the regular interrupt polled the linkport, it wouldn't be any good either,
because for one, the calc would have to be on the home screen, and two, people
would notice.  You would have to add a program to the outgoing programs in
order for a virus to work, which could probably be done with [sqrt]KEY.

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