Re: Virus Advice needed

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From: Fridrik Skulason
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 09:14

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>>I would bet a lot of money that Target re-wrapped it.

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.

>>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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