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Article #3999Re: VIRUS OUTBREAK in MAC BINARIES!
From: Brandon S. Allbery
Date: Mon, 04 Sep 1989 00:07
Date: Mon, 04 Sep 1989 00:07
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As quoted from <1432@intercon.UUCP> by amanda@intercon.uu.net (Amanda Walker): +--------------- | In article <107@jhereg.Minnetech.MN.ORG>, andrew@jhereg.Minnetech.MN.ORG | (Andrew Esh) writes: | > After downloading a number of files and playing aournd with them, | > I started MandelZot. It put up a dialog saying that the 'Safety Seal' had | > been broken, and that there was a possible viral infection. "Disinfectant" | | Odd. I downloaded MandelZot from comp.binaries.mac, and it seems quite happy. +--------------- May I point out that he didn't say MandelZot had caused it, merely that it had auto-detected an already-existing infection apparently caused by some other program from c.bin.mac? This seemed pretty clear to me. ++Brandon -- Brandon S. Allbery, moderator of comp.sources.misc allbery@NCoast.ORG uunet!hal.cwru.edu!ncoast!allbery ncoast!allbery@hal.cwru.edu "Why do trans-atlantic transfers take so long?" "Electrons don't swim very fast." -john@minster.york.ac.uk and whh@PacBell.COM
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cwjcc!hal!ncoast!allbery From: allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: VIRUS OUTBREAK in MAC BINARIES! Message-ID: <1989Sep4.000746.4183@NCoast.ORG> Date: 4 Sep 89 00:07:46 GMT References: <20982.24F8D5E1@cmhgate.FIDONET.ORG> <697@anagld.UUCP> <123914@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> <945@mrsvr.UUCP> <107@jhereg.Minnetech.MN.ORG> <1432@intercon.UUCP> Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery) Followup-To: comp.sys.mac Organization: North Coast Public Access UN*X, Cleveland, OH Lines: 21