Re: Virus trends

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From: David Gursky
Date: Tue, 26 Dec 1989 13:17

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> To: dmg@retina.mitre.org
> Date: Fri, 22 Dec 89 19:13:24 -0500
> From: denbeste@BBN.COM
>
> One of the best-known and best researched anti-viral programs for the Amiga
> is VirusX by Steve Tibbetts. A few months ago a new version of this program
> began appearing which was really a trojan. It got rather wide distribution
> before anyone noticed that Tibbetts hadn't really written it. Since that
> time, Tibbetts no longer publishes his source code when he releases a new
> version.
>
> In other words: The prediction you didn't like was really true; it already
> came about!

Oops!  Minor omission on my part.  I neglected to include in my
comment about the authors being well known that they should be easily
and widely reachable!

There is also the underlying presumption in my message that a new
release is confirmed from the author before publication of the
application

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From: dmg@retina.mitre.org (David Gursky)
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