Virus Checking

From: John R. Keys Jr. <jrkeys_at_concentric.net>
Date: Thu Dec 31 16:06:49 1998

The December 1998 issue of MAC Addict was shipped with CD that had a virus
on it. It happened while they were being copied from the master. It only
works on the PowerPC Mac's the older models can run it without a problem,
also according the Mac Addict the virus expires on Dec 24th of this year.
John

> -----Original Message-----
> From: CLASSICCMP-owner_at_u.washington.edu
> [mailto:CLASSICCMP-owner_at_u.washington.edu]On Behalf Of SUPRDAVE_at_aol.com
> Sent: Thursday, December 31, 1998 6:55 AM
> To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
> Subject: Re: Virus Checking
>
>
> In a message dated 12/31/98 0:33:13 AM EST, Pjoules1_at_cs.com writes:
>
> << Agreed, apart from home produced or piarate ones which you have already
> pointed out are always suspect. IIRC there have been rare
> ocasions where
> floppies have been distributed with viruses in bulk, one was a batch of
> preformatted ones where the master (or duplicating machine or
> whatever) was
> infected with aa boot sector vvirus, and I belive that there has been at
> least
> on occasion where a major software house accidentally
> distributed some but
> that was many years ago.
> >>
> i think not long ago that a commercial mac cd was shipped with a
> virus. can
> anyone elaborate?
>
Received on Thu Dec 31 1998 - 16:06:49 GMT

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