Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!att!oucsace!bchurch From: bchurch@oucsace.cs.OHIOU.EDU (Bob Church) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: HELP. Need lode-runner virus info Summary: Oops Message-ID: <897@oucsace.cs.OHIOU.EDU> Date: 27 Nov 89 17:39:48 GMT References: <8911220724.AA07348@apple.com> <894@oucsace.cs.OHIOU.EDU> <3266@husc6.harvard.edu> Organization: Ohio University CS Dept., Athens Lines: 15 In article <3266@husc6.harvard.edu>, huang@husc4.HARVARD.EDU (Howard Huang) writes: > bchurch@oucsace.cs.OHIOU.EDU (Bob Church) writes: > > KMILES@CC.USU.EDU ("Kurt Miles, VAX Consultant") writes: > >> I just got hit by the lode-runner virus. > >How do you get a virus from a commercial program? > I don't think Kurt said it was a commercial program. Public domain > and shareware programs are also great targets for viruses. > Sorry, I thought that he had gotten the virus from the Broderbund game of that name. I thought that this may have been the first case (that I had heard of) of a virus being planted by the infamous disgruntled employee. Bob Church att!oucsace!bchurch