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From: woodside@ttidca.TTI.COM (George Woodside)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: PUBPAINT
Message-ID: <11284@ttidca.TTI.COM>
Date: 23 Mar 90 12:33:35 GMT
Reply-To: woodside@ttidca.tti.com (George Woodside)
Organization: Citicorp/TTI, Santa Monica
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Recently, David Beckemeyer mentioned the German paint program from the GEnie
libraries (PUBPAINT.ARC) as a possible virus source. David provided me with
more information on why he suspected the program. I downloaded it, and
check it quite thoroughly. It does not contain, or generate, any virus.

David's suspicions were due to a function call the program made, which
was rather unusual. It did indeed do what he thought, but not for the
purpose of generating a virus. The program does do quite a few wierd
sound effects, and handle a few functions in some rather unusual ways,
but none of them are harmful.

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* George R. Woodside - Citicorp/TTI - Santa Monica, CA *
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