Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!apple!usc!hacgate!ashtate!dbase!cy
From: cy@dbase.UUCP (Cy Shuster)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Available CD-ROMs for Macintosh
Summary: Viruses are still possible!
Keywords: CD-ROM Megarom
Message-ID: <120@dbase.UUCP>
Date: 20 Jun 89 17:29:32 GMT
References: <102@dbase.UUCP> <32391@apple.Apple.COM> <2349@internal.Apple.COM> <7947@saturn.ucsc.edu> <2366@internal.Apple.COM> <420@lloyd.camex.uucp>
Reply-To: cy@dbase.UUCP (Cy Shuster)
Organization: Ashton Tate Development Center Glendale, Calif.
Lines: 18

In article <420@lloyd.camex.uucp> kent@lloyd.UUCP (Kent Borg) writes:
>And the one ``bonehead'' instance I *have* heard of was caught before
>any of the bad discs were distributed. 

I hold in my hand the first issue of QLTech's MegaROM (Vol 1, Oct. 88,
with green stripes across it) which was apparently infected by Nimbus
just before it was pressed. Dennis Cohen and I found the virus on the
same weekend, and reported it to Quantum Leap, who immediately sent out
clean replacements, with even a few more goodies on it.

The point is that some of these did in fact get distributed. So what the
heck? Trust, but verify: run Virus RX over a weekend. Do it once, and then
you never need do it again.

--Cy--

DISCLAIMER: My opinions only.