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Article #33266Re: SCORES ordeal + new(?) SCORES info
From: John Norstad
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 1988 15:52
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 1988 15:52
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Jim Harvey writes: >Run KillScores, Ferret, Virus RX from Apple, and any other anti-viral >utility, on all of your floppies. Now you're clean.... Virus Rx from Apple will detect the Scores virus, but not get rid of it. Ferret has a number of serious bugs, and in some cases will leave your system infected, as I reported in a posting to comp.sys.mac on 5/2/88. I recommend KillScores. >Vaccine will warn you RIGHT AWAY if Scores is trying to infect your >system. Vaccine will try to warn you by putting up a dialog box. Unfortunately, at the time Scores tries to infect your system the dialog manager is not yet initialized, so Vaccine bombs. Your system is protected (not infected), but the only warning you get is the system error alert. >You're all set-- unless you bought programs from EDS Data Systems. >SCORES deliberately damages applications with creator types from EDS. According to magazine articles (see InfoWorld and MacWeek in particular), the programs in question (VULT and ERIC) were never released or sold to the general public. John Norstad Academic Computing and Network Services Northwestern University Bitnet: jln@nuacc Internet: jln@nuacc.acns.nwu.edu
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!yunexus!geac!syntron!jtsv16!uunet!husc6!ukma!mailrus!ncar!tank!nucsrl!jln From: jln@eecs.nwu.edu (John Norstad) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: SCORES ordeal + new(?) SCORES info Message-ID: <10330058@eecs.nwu.edu> Date: 13 Oct 88 15:52:02 GMT Article-I.D.: eecs.10330058 References: <6685@ut-emx.UUCP> Organization: Northwestern U, Evanston IL, USA Lines: 32