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Article #39586Re: Mac Viruses: How long before...?
From: Alexis Rosen
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 1989 18:13
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 1989 18:13
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In article <380@biar.UUCP> trebor@biar.UUCP (Robert J Woodhead) writes: > >In general, not much at all. No known nVIR virus is malevolent. Most >do nothing. Some attempt to speak or make sounds. Well. Fortunately, that appears to be true now. However, the original nVIR *WAS* malevolent, deleting files once out of every sixteen times. Whatever people say about Mattias Urlichs' common sense, we probably have him to thank that that strain is now, apparently, extinct. This is from memory... More details can probably be found in various archives where the original articles describing nVIR are. Alexis Rosen alexis@ccnysci.uucp
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!eecae!netnews.upenn.edu!rutgers!cmcl2!ccnysci!alexis From: alexis@ccnysci.UUCP (Alexis Rosen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Mac Viruses: How long before...? Message-ID: <1416@ccnysci.UUCP> Date: 17 Mar 89 18:13:22 GMT References: <1551@etive.ed.ac.uk> <709@unocss.UUCP> <380@biar.UUCP> Reply-To: alexis@ccnysci.UUCP (Alexis Rosen) Organization: City College of New York Lines: 15