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From: amanda@intercon.uu.net (Amanda Walker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: VIRUS OUTBREAK in MAC BINARIES!
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Date: 1 Sep 89 19:44:07 GMT
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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.

Odd.  I downloaded MandelZot from comp.binaries.mac, and it seems quite happy.
GateKeeper didn't even hiccup, and Disinfectant doesn't show any problem.

My guess is that something else that you downloaded was infected, not
MandelZot...

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Amanda Walker
InterCon Systems Corporation

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