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Article #4901RE: Emergency contacts and vendors writing viruses
From: Roman Olynyk - Information Servi...
Date: Thu, 08 Jun 1989 18:10
Date: Thu, 08 Jun 1989 18:10
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In mentioning the "Computer Emergency Response Team" at Carnegie-Mellon as an Internet contact point for virus notification, you neglected to provide any lead. Is there an electronic mail address or telephone number for the CERT? [Ed. Sorry, the phone number for CERT is (412) 268-7090, and the e-mail address is CERT@SEI.CMU.EDU.] Also, in the subject of "Are software developers releasing viruses," I can add Microsoft Word... we have version 1.0 of Word at our site (if you can imagine that!). If you use a good disk editor and search for the string "evil" you will find the text: "The tree of evil bears evil fruit. Crime does not pay. Trashing program disk..." I can't say that this may actually happen, since I haven't tempted fate by making unauthorized copies. However, it is a bit disconcerting to see such a message imbedded in a commercial product.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!uxc!tank!eecae!netnews.upenn.edu!vax1.cc.lehigh.edu!ubu.cc.lehigh.edu!virus-l From: CC011054@WVNVAXA.WVNET.EDU (Roman Olynyk - Information Services) Newsgroups: comp.virus Subject: RE: Emergency contacts and vendors writing viruses Message-ID: <0005.8906081951.AA00599@ubu.CC.Lehigh.EDU> Date: 8 Jun 89 18:10:00 GMT Sender: Virus Discussion List <VIRUS-L@IBM1.CC.Lehigh.EDU> Reply-To: VIRUS-L@IBM1.CC.Lehigh.EDU Lines: 15 Approved: virus-l@ubu.cc.lehigh.edu