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To: HerbVic who wrote (6395)	11/14/1997 8:49:00 AM
From: Phillip C. Lee	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213173

Off-topic: Netscape has built Enterprise Server as well as Directory Server for users to establish their web pages using CGI (Common Gateway Interface)/ Perl (script language) or Java. Within CGI/Perl program, another independent functions can be spawned, which probably written in C or C++. When the user submits his URL command, the server will search for the remote server which enable to execute the URL command and respond back interactively. User may fill out form and submit again for further info. This will be all takn care of by Server's API which was written in CGI/Perl script language (no need to compile, they are interpreter languages, like Basic, Java). Speaking of virus, sometimes, it is not really a virus, rather it is a bug in CGI/Perl programs which may containing C, C++ source code. Especailly, in C, C++, memory leak is a common problem (the reason to cause that is that the programmer allocates a specific chunk of memory for variable store, and forgets to free out the space, hence when it accumulates to certain level that exceeds memory capacity, the entire web page get hung on server site, that will probably cause your client site get hung.) Phil

To: HerbVic who wrote (6395)	11/14/1997 10:19:00 AM
From: BillHoo	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 213173

"The irony is that only an intelligent and cunningly resourceful mind could, after long hours of dedicated effort, devise a method of getting around all the safeguards just to execute their malicious prank." on a more productive side of virus programming take what the US military did in the Gulf war. It was very methodical. Months before the war started they implanted virus infected ROM chips into printers that were sold to Iraq by a French distributor. The printers were connected to the computer network employed by the Iraqi Air Defense Force. Now this is ASCII data transmitted on a printer network that somehow got into the main Air Defense Computer. It was dormant until the attack and was somehow triggered to generate false Air Defense warnings and data to confound the Iraqis. Who thinks this stuff up!? Again, the military found the right sociapath to do their bidding. He's probably watching us right now plotting and scheming. HEY! DID MY CURSOR JUST MOVE BY ITSELF! WHO DID THAT!? -Bill_H