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From: MIKEA@pucc.Princeton.EDU (Michael Antolovich)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: VIRUS OUTBREAK in MAC BINARIES!
Message-ID: <9500@pucc.Princeton.EDU>
Date: 1 Sep 89 17:35:59 GMT
References: <20982.24F8D5E1@cmhgate.FIDONET.ORG> <697@anagld.UUCP> <123914@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> <945@mrsvr.UUCP> <107@jhereg.Minnetech.MN.ORG>
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In article <107@jhereg.Minnetech.MN.ORG>, andrew@jhereg.Minnetech.MN.ORG (Andrew Esh) writes:

>
>        After downloading a number of files and playing aournd with them,
>I started MandelZot.  It put up a dialog saying that the 'Safety Seal' had
>been broken, and that there was a possible viral infection.  "Disinfectant"
>showed me that there was a medium sized infection on my hard disk, starting
>with the Finder.  It occurred on the same day I downloaded from mac.binaries,
>and I don't think I ran any other software.

   I have just calmed down after this panic, I had just downloaded
MandleZot 1hr before, but all is well.  There is no sign of a virus
on the files I downloaded (I missed the first Mandlezot Document
file, is it there ?  Can someone send me that file, if it's clean)
   Anyway, I suggest you check else where for the source of the virus
as well.
                                      Michael.