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From: len@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Leonard P Levine)
Newsgroups: comp.virus
Subject: Re: RE: Shrink wrap...still safe?
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Date: 15 Jan 90 16:42:17 GMT
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Many vendors are now selling software on un-notched disks.  My most
recent copy of wordstar, my copy of spinrite and even one shareware
product have come to me on disks that cannot be written to except with
modified computer hardware.

Such software can only be infected at the factory, and the probability of
that is becoming increasingly small.

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