> >
> >Somewhat off topic, but Fred Cohen (the same guy who came up 
> with the concept
> >of a virus) showed that stopping *ALL* viruses is equivalent 
> to the Turing
> >Halting Problem, and thus fundamentally impossible.
> >
> >http://www.all.net/books/virus/index.html
> >
> >Stopping 99.98% of viruses isn't too hard - but stopping ALL 
> of them is
> >impossible.. Anybody who says it's doable is obviously a salesman. ;)
> >
> 

Sure, haven't you heard of that guy?  He's the one who sold snow to the
Eskimos and sand to the Arabs.  Now that's one heck of a salesman!  :-P

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