g of devices that kill massive numbers of people at a time. Are the manufactures doing anything immoral by selling their product? Of course not. In addition anti-virus Nottingham 8researchers can update their own programs to look for the newly published viruses as soon as the electronic magazines come out. If Viral Labs and Distribution didn't publish their code, then anti-virus personnel would have to first isolate the new virus and then spend months disassembling it.In conclusion, it seems that times most respected philosophers concur with this authors thesis, that virus writing is fine as long as no one is hurt."Ultimately, there is no security."-Dr. Fred Cohen, Professor, University of CincinnatiNottingham 12BibliographyAnders, E., Atwater, D., Baker, K., Bergen, K., Duarte, B., & Goldsmith, K. (1993). The Norton Anti-Virus User's Guide. Cupertino, California: Symantec Corp.Booth, Stephen A. (1995, June). Doom Virus. Popular Mechanics, pp. 51-54 & 128.Ludwig, Mark. (1991). The Little Black Book of Computer Viruses. Tucson: American Eagle Publication, Inc.Lundell, Allan. (1989). Virus!. Chicago: Contemporary BooksMetabolis (1995, April 27). Aim & Policies [Electronic Magazine]. Viral Labs and Distribution, pp. 8-9Newton, H. Lisa. (1989). Ethics in America. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice HallSymantec. (1993). The Norton Anti-Virus: Version 3 for DOS and Windows [Computer Anti-Viral program]. Cupertino, California: Symantec Corp.Nottingham 9Appendix AThroughout this essay I have avoided the use of the word "hacker" when referring to virus writers. The correct way of referring to virus writers would be "cracker."The definition of a cracker is one who attempts to break into a system via cracking/guessing user passwords. Most of the crackers are young teenage punks who are very malicious and seek to get their kicks from destroying or altering data on a system. The media often times mistakes the cracker for the hacker. Also no...
