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Article #352377Re: Why prolong the agony? Just get Windows 95...you'll be
From: pin... Steffan Davies
Date: Wed, 15 May 1996 00:00
Date: Wed, 15 May 1996 00:00
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In article <wzzq7ay...@stego.cs.ruu.nl> pi...@cs.ruu.nl (Piet van Oostrum) writes: > That is impossible. You can prove that it is impossible to write a compiler > that can detect all infinite loops (this is called the halting problem). Aha - this was discussed at an anti-virus conference I went to. Yes, everyone agreed that it was impossible to recognise *all* viruses for that very reason. But Vesselin Bontchev (Bulgarian virus researcher now working in Germany) pointed out that this did not preclude detecting all viruses under say 10 megabytes. Nor in this case does it preclude detecting some categories of simple infinite loop (such as the one given earlier). Steff
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