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In article <rice.725054644@willow23> rice@zizania.cray.com writes:
>jdp@osric.cs.odu.edu (JD Powell) writes:
>
>>...and lenient return policies of the vendors they deal with.  Please post 
>>the names of these vendors for the rest of us....  Who are the good guys?
>
>Egghead Discount Software will accept returns of opened software.  I think
>the limit is 30 days.  

I don't want to cause a panic, and all resellers I've heard of are 
very careful, but, btw, viruses are also spread via returned-and-
re-shrinkwrapped software.

"Careful" translates to either "all returns go back to the manufactuerer"
or "all returns are scanned for viruses before being resold" (I am referrring
to undamaged returns).

A not-very-common windows 3.0 setup problem is caused by the windows original
disks being infected with a virus (microsoft is very careful about the
"health" of the master diskettes and even duplicates disks on machines
running xenix, so even if the duplicator gets infected it can't affect the
MS-DOS-based or Macintosh-based software on the disks).  Each case we know
about, the software had been installed previously on an infected system
(and sometimes returned, re-shrinkwrapped, and re-sold). No such problem is
known about windows 3.1. Windows 3.0 shipped on writable disks; windows 3.1
(and the ms-dos 5 upgrade, and most new products being released) are shipped
on "permanently" write-protected disks.  

From a support standpoint, this is seriously cool (unless the user cut
a notch in a set of 5.25"s, no viruses, no accidently-deleted-the-file-we
-need, etc :)

-jen