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- From: knepley@CS.ColoState.EDU (Ranseus (Jim Knepley))
- Subject: Re: Virus Advice needed
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- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 19:00:40 GMT
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- In article <Michel_Gerber.042m@bearsden.UUCP> Michel_Gerber@bearsden.UUCP (Michel Gerber) writes:
- >I am sending him McAfee's Virus Scanner and Clean-Up program to check his
- >files and make sure the system is clean, and to check to see if the virus
- >really did come from the California Games disk. Hopeful he can keep his
- >data safe.
-
- It probably did, judging from your description. McAffe can kill Stoned
- in a matter of seconds.
-
- >I once again would like help tracking down the company EPYX which puts the
- >game out. The package was shrink wraped at time of purchase, so unless
- >Target re-wrapped it, is would have to have come from EPYX.
-
- I would bet a lot of money that Target re-wrapped it. Companies aren't known
- for spreading viruses (with the exception of Michaelangelo, but that's
- another story). I'm 95% sure that Target re-wrapped that package. If he
- lost information that was important because of the virus, he could
- conceviably hold Target responsible.
-
- Anyway, Stoned is one of the first viruses that I know of. Any anti-viral
- package worth the disk it's on can remove it.
-
- Jim
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