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- From: martin@cs.ualberta.ca (Tim Martin; FSO; Soil Sciences)
- Newsgroups: comp.virus
- Subject: Re: Export restrictions of anti-virus software?
- Message-ID: <0002.9301271940.AA16908@barnabas.cert.org>
- Date: 16 Jan 93 00:20:52 GMT
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- >From postings by Vesselin, Aryeh, and Frisk, I am informed
- that it would be against Canadian Law for me to "export" anti-
- virus "shareware".
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- The Monkey virus, which originated in Canada, has been found in
- the US and in England. The Killmonk program, an embarassingly
- simple little snippet of code, also written in Canada (I haven't
- been out of the country for months, something we Edmontonians notice
- mid-winter), is one of few "convenient" ways of removing the Monkey
- virus from a hard disk. Killmonk is "freeware". The entertaining
- question of my week is "Am I breaking my country's Law by
- distributing Killmonk to persons and ftp sites outside Canada,
- to help them get rid of a virus that exported itself to them
- from Canada?" :)
-
- Nothing like a little legal mirth to warm the winter spirit.
-
- Tim.
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- Tim Martin *
- Spatial Information Systems * These opinions are my own:
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