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Article #26196Re: Virus on the Mac?
From: Frank Owen
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 1988 20:45
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 1988 20:45
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> Was this a freak accident or are there virus programs out there which > attack macs? There are many known viruses for PCs. Is your Mac located near a PC? A PC virus could possibly be carried out of the PC through it's exhaust fan and then infect your Mac! Actually, the chances of this happening are pretty slim, because even if the virus somehow found it's way out of the PC (these viruses can be pretty tricky little fellows), it would have to go through some sort of genetic transformation in order to infect such a radically different species as the Mac. -- Frank Owen (fjo@ttrde) 312-982-2182 AT&T Information Systems Computer Systems Division, 5555 Touhy Ave., Skokie, IL 60077 PATH: ...!ihnp4!ttrdf!fjo
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!ames!pacbell!att-ih!ttrdc!ttrde!ttrdf!fjo From: fjo@ttrdf.UUCP (Frank Owen ) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Virus on the Mac? Message-ID: <340@ttrdf.UUCP> Date: 10 Mar 88 20:45:05 GMT References: <1056@hubcap.UUCP> Organization: AT&T, Skokie, IL Lines: 20