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- Subject: Re: virus (again)
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- From: gary@cdthq.UUCP (Gary Heston)
- Message-ID: <X7omwB1w161w@cdthq.UUCP>
- References: <6696.2B421D64@umagic.FIDONET.ORG>
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 92 22:04:56 CST
- Organization: Garys' Home for Obsolete Computers
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- Scott.Burgett@umagic.FIDONET.ORG (Scott Burgett) writes:
-
- > Has there been a problem of commercial software being infected or
- > systems for that matter? I wouldn't think that there would be, but
- > just curious if anyone has heard of such an incident.
-
- Yes, there have been various packages (I read of one report that
- some infected packages of GEM were found) and some demo discs
- have been distributed with viruses (including one antiviri package
- that was a Michangelo-only detector; it was infected with another
- virus....). Leading Edge, I believe, shipped several hundred
- systems that were infected, early last year.
-
- It does happen, but things have gotten *much* better over the last
- year or so.
-
- Gary Heston, at home....
- gary@cdthq.uucp
-