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Article #4680Re: Export restrictions of anti-virus software?
From: Tim Martin; FSO; Soil Sciences
Date: Sat, 16 Jan 1993 00:20
Date: Sat, 16 Jan 1993 00:20
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>From postings by Vesselin, Aryeh, and Frisk, I am informed that it would be against Canadian Law for me to "export" anti- virus "shareware". The Monkey virus, which originated in Canada, has been found in the US and in England. The Killmonk program, an embarassingly simple little snippet of code, also written in Canada (I haven't been out of the country for months, something we Edmontonians notice mid-winter), is one of few "convenient" ways of removing the Monkey virus from a hard disk. Killmonk is "freeware". The entertaining question of my week is "Am I breaking my country's Law by distributing Killmonk to persons and ftp sites outside Canada, to help them get rid of a virus that exported itself to them from Canada?" :) Nothing like a little legal mirth to warm the winter spirit. Tim. ------------------------------------------------------------- Tim Martin * Spatial Information Systems * These opinions are my own: University of Alberta * My employer has none! martin@cs.ualberta.ca * -------------------------------------------------------------
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!ukma!darwin.sura.net!newsserver.jvnc.net!netnews.upenn.edu!netnews.cc.lehigh.edu!news From: martin@cs.ualberta.ca (Tim Martin; FSO; Soil Sciences) Newsgroups: comp.virus Subject: Re: Export restrictions of anti-virus software? Message-ID: <0002.9301271940.AA16908@barnabas.cert.org> Date: 16 Jan 93 00:20:52 GMT Sender: virus-l@lehigh.edu Lines: 25 Approved: news@netnews.cc.lehigh.edu