Path: utzoo!censor!geac!maccs!cs4g6ag
From: cs4g6ag@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Stephen M. Dunn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Possible lurking virus problemer
Message-ID: <25BAA681.12525@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca>
Date: 22 Jan 90 06:21:53 GMT
References: <21698@unix.cis.pitt.edu>
Reply-To: cs4g6ag@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Stephen M. Dunn)
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Organization: McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario
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In article <21698@unix.cis.pitt.edu> pdccs@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Patrick D. Champion) writes:
$	Any ideas anyone?  I could run a program to check for viruses 
$writing to .EXE or .COM files, but my bosses don't look favourably on anything
$running on the PC's besides the software that we bought. 

   Well, if your bosses have any brains in their heads, I'm sure that given the
choice between you running a harmless vaccine program than to have a harmful
virus running itself.  That is, unless the data and programs on the computers
are meaningless to their business, which I rather doubt.
-- 
Stephen M. Dunn                               cs4g6ag@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca
          <std_disclaimer.h> = "\nI'm only an undergraduate!!!\n";
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