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Article #4916MS-Word-1.0 "crime doesn't pay" rumor???
From: UTARLG::B645ZAX
Date: Sat, 10 Jun 1989 17:01
Date: Sat, 10 Jun 1989 17:01
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Roman Olynyk (cc011054@wvmvaxa.wvnet.edu) writes:
>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..."
Can anyone verify/refute this? Has this been seen elsewhere (perhaps
his copy is infected by an ordinary virus)? Can anyone at Microsoft
make *objective* comments. How about anyone with an original,
unaltered copy of MS-Word 1.0? Please examine the disk & report the
location of the string, so others can find it. I hope this is just a
rumor.
- -David Richardson, The University of Texas at Arlington
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