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Article #31164Re: A cure looking for a disease? (I hope)
From: Robert Jung
Date: Wed, 09 Mar 1988 18:52
Date: Wed, 09 Mar 1988 18:52
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In article <4235@umn-cs.cs.umn.edu> davidli@umn-cs.UUCP (Dave Meile) writes:
>In article <8803081650.AA29358@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> 051332@UOTTAWA.BITNET (John Turnbull) writes:
>>Does anybody have any information about this virus, its mode of
>>infection, mechanism, symptoms or how wide-spread it may have become?
>
>The program is legitimate. There has been a virus located and dissected
>in Europe. I first heard about it a month ago, when I got the back
>issues of an informational disk called ST NEWS from Richard Karsmakers from
>The Netherlands. He was *quite* furious when the virus was discovered.
Can you post a short summary of what is the purpose of the virus (ie,
what was it supposed to do)? There's been a lot of (now confirmed)
talks about the ST virus, but no one I've met can tell me just what it does.
--R.J.
B-)
What kind of a twisted mind would write such a thing?
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