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Re: Disinfectant 1.6 oddity

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From: Jeanne A. E. DeVoto
Date: Sat, 07 Apr 1990 08:47
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In article <46701.2611058F@cmhgate.FIDONET.ORG>
Michael.Burton@p3.f200.n226.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Michael Burton) writes:
>   Adam Frix wrote that he discovered a popular obscenity while
>poking around in Disinfectant:
>   
>Very likely some existing virus adds one or more resources of that type,
>or by that name.

This is correct. One of the nVir clones (yet another stupid clone) uses
a popular obscenity beginning with the 6th letter of the alphabet as
its resource type. No need to worry about Disinfectant.

>   Don't panic.

Uh, you *do* realize that some versions of nVir say this if MacinTalk is
installed? ;-)
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From: jdevoto@Apple.COM (Jeanne A. E. DeVoto)
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Subject: Re: Disinfectant 1.6 oddity
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Date: 7 Apr 90 08:47:28 GMT
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