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From: IHLS400@INDYCMS.BITNET (Holly Lee Stowe)
Newsgroups: comp.virus
Subject: INIT29 and data files (Mac)
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Date: 13 Jul 89 15:41:00 GMT
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Chris Krohn (>) replies to Michael Niehaus (> ##) about viruses
    spreading from data files:

> ##All of the other files on the
> ##network are data files.  Viruses cannot be spread from these data files.
>
>     Not true.  The Init29 virus, for example, will infect data files
> as well as applications.

Chris, I think you've misunderstood what Michael stated.  INIT29 can indeed
spread to data files, but as far as I know, it is not capable of spreading
*from* data files back to applications.

Also, for anyone using Macs and trying to teach others about what things
to be aware, may I recommend highly a Hypercard stack called the Virus
Encyclopedia which is available on GEnie and probably other places.
(The author's name is Henry C. Schmitt, and he's from the Northwest of
Us, a user group in Arlington Heights, IL.)  Also the informational
screens from John Norstad's Disinfectant are very helpful.

- -Holly

  If something is preposterous, does it later become postposterous?
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