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Article #38755

Re: New Virus Rx 1.4: it's really 1.4a2 again

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From: LTH network news server
Date: Sat, 04 Mar 1989 18:40
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In article <36906@think.UUCP> ephraim@think.com (Ephraim Vishniac) writes:
>In article <5972@bsu-cs.UUCP> mithomas@bsu-cs.UUCP (Michael Thomas Niehaus) writes:
>>Does anyone (especially within the "priviledged" part of Apple) have a copy
>>of Virus Rx 1.4 that they could post to comp.binaries.mac?  I read the
>>announcement on AppleLink yesterday that the new 1.4 is available.
>
>Sure enough, the announcement is there.  It directs you to look in the
>Technical Info library for the "new" Virus Rx.  What's there, however,
>is Virus Rx 1.4a2, the same one that's been available for a month and
>a half.  The only difference that I could find is that it's not
>labelled as such in the library -- you have to download it to find out
>that it's the same old thing.

That's correct. I checked AppleLink yesterday, and found Virus Rx on three
places. One was labelled 1.4a1, one 1.4a2 and the last one (in the Technical 
Info Library) was just called 'Untitled' (what a user friendly name :-)).

Please Apple, always include version numbers on applications. I wonder
how many people downloaded the 'Untitled' Virus Rx just to see that it was
the old version. The Press Release, dated Feb 22, said
  "Distribution: Virus Rx version 1.4 is currently available on many major
   bulletin boards, and in the Technical Info library on AppleLink."

>Ephraim Vishniac  /  Internet: ephraim@think.com  / AppleLink: ThinkingCorp
>Thinking Machines Corporation / 245 First Street / Cambridge, MA 02142-1214
-- 
Roland Mansson, Lund University Computing Center, Box 783, S220 07 Lund, Sweden
Phone: +46-46107436   Fax: +46-46138225   Bitnet: roland_m@seldc52
Internet: roland_m@ldc.lu.se   or   roland_m%ldc.lu.se@uunet.uu.net
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!kth!draken!Urd!newsuser
From: newsuser@LTH.Se (LTH network news server)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: New Virus Rx 1.4: it's really 1.4a2 again
Keywords: Scores nVIR Hpat INIT29
Message-ID: <1989Mar4.194044.25296@LTH.Se>
Date: 4 Mar 89 18:40:43 GMT
References: <5972@bsu-cs.UUCP> <36906@think.UUCP>
Reply-To: roland@DNA.LTH.Se (Roland Mansson)
Organization: Lund University Computing Center, Sweden
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