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- From: frisk@complex.is (Fridrik Skulason)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
- Subject: Re: Virus Advice needed
- Message-ID: <179@complex.complex.is>
- Date: 29 Dec 92 09:14:25 GMT
- References: <Michel_Gerber.042m@bearsden.UUCP> <Dec28.190040.58334@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU> <1hohkhINNr42@crcnis1.unl.edu>
- Organization: Frisk Software International, Iceland
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- >>I would bet a lot of money that Target re-wrapped it.
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- Probably, yes. There are only a few cases of diskettes actually being
- infected in the original duplication process, but there have been quite
- a few isolated cases of stores accepting returned software, and
- re-shrinkwrapping it.
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- >>Companies aren't known for spreading viruses (with the exception of
- >>Michaelangelo, but that's another story).
-
- Well, Michelangelo is pretty rare - MusicBug (distributed on tens of thousands
- of VGA-driver diskettes from Taiwan and Form (possibly distributed on
- pre-formatted blank disks) are better examples.
-
- >Of course companies aren't "known" for spreading viruses.
-
- Oh, they are...but only a few of them, though...
-
- > Nobody is "known" for spreading viruses.
-
- Have you never heard of Virus-exchange BBSes - they sure are known for that
- practice...
-
- -frisk
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