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From: MIKEA@pucc.Princeton.EDU (Michael Antolovich)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: VIRUS OUTBREAK in MAC BINARIES!
Message-ID: <9535@pucc.Princeton.EDU>
Date: 4 Sep 89 12:03:58 GMT
References: <20982.24F8D5E1@cmhgate.FIDONET.ORG> <697@anagld.UUCP> <123914@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> <945@mrsvr.UUCP> <107@jhereg.Minnetech.MN.ORG> <1432@intercon.UUCP> <1989Sep4.000746.4183@NCoast.ORG>
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In article <1989Sep4.000746.4183@NCoast.ORG>, allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery) writes:

>As quoted from <1432@intercon.UUCP> by amanda@intercon.uu.net (Amanda Walker):
>+---------------
>| 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"
>|
>| Odd.  I downloaded MandelZot from comp.binaries.mac, and it seems quite happy.
>+---------------
>
>May I point out that he didn't say MandelZot had caused it, merely that it had
>auto-detected an already-existing infection apparently caused by some other
>program from c.bin.mac?  This seemed pretty clear to me.


   That's odd, it isn't so clear after readind the Subject ?

                                              Michael.