Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!purdue!gatech!ukma!simon From: simon@ms.uky.edu (G. Simon Gales) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Article on Datacrime virus Message-ID: <12877@s.ms.uky.edu> Date: 9 Oct 89 16:42:42 GMT References: <787@cbnewsj.ATT.COM> <810@cbnewsj.ATT.COM> Reply-To: simon@ms.uky.edu (G. Simon Gales) Organization: U of Kentucky, Mathematical Sciences Lines: 14 According to an article in Info World (I think it was in there) the DataCrime virus cannot be triggered by simple changing the current date to Oct. 13. The date has to be advanced one day at a time, up to 10/13/89, to trigger the virus. There is a program for detecting/removing the critter available for anonymous ftp from s.ms.uky.edu. ----- No guarantees, this is Monday after all. -- Simon Gales@The University of Kentucky simon@ms.uky.edu | 'Fate... protects fools, little children, simon@UKMA.BITNET | and ships named Enterprise.' {rutgers, uunet}!ukma!simon | - Riker, ST:TNG