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To: BillHoo who wrote (6340)	11/12/1997 6:34:00 PM
From: HerbVic	Respond to of 213173

>Is it possible to program a segmented virus that loads itself 257 >characters at a time into memory and then execute on completion? HTML >code is all ASCII. I don't know about that, but I do know that if there is a hole somthing WILL slither, creep, scurry, or crawl its way in. Bugs are nasty! Viruses can be very small. In overall market, will bears prevail through close on Friday? HerbVic, JAAO

To: BillHoo who wrote (6340)	11/12/1997 10:38:00 PM
From: Jonathan Bird	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213173

<<Is it possible to program a segmented virus that loads itself 257 characters at a time into memory and then execute on completion? HTML code is all ASCII.>> This whole secruty risk is completely theoretical. While there seems to be no limit as to what can go wrong with computers, this is really way out there. One in a billion, one in a trillion, it doesn't matter its that unlikely. Even if it were posible to write such a virus(i've never written one) there would be no way to get it to excute. It would just sit there in RAM after the browser crashes and that memory block would either be avoided by the OS as already being used or written over without event. Then when your computer turns off its gone, no more virus left. Jon Bird