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From: jln@acns.nwu.edu (John Norstad)
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Subject: Re: Disinfectant 1.6 oddity
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Date: 26 Mar 90 04:51:32 GMT
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In article <46474.260AC8B9@cmhgate.FIDONET.ORG> 
Adam.Frix@p2.f200.n226.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Adam Frix) writes:
> For reasons no one cares about, I was fiddling around in Disinfectant
> 1.6 using Symantec Tools.  While in the resource fork, at sector 21, 
> offset 97, I found the word "fuck" stuck in there.  Lowercase, all by
> itself.  Now, this sounds real strange to me--I didn't expect this in 
this
> product, and it really blew me away.  Does anybody know the source/
> reason for this?  My main worry is that despite having gotten this copy
> off of CompuServe (practically guaranteed, if not absolutely guaranteed,
> clean), perhaps it's been altered by someone not authorized to alter it.
> I don't mean to spread panic, but this is the first thing that came to
> mind, and it's managed to stick with me.
> 
> Any help is appreciated.

As others have pointed out, this is a "signature" of one of the nVIR 
clones.  I wondered if anybody would ever discover this, and if they did, 
if they would get worried/upset.  I considered doing some sort of mild 
encryption to "hide" such stuff, but never got around to it.  In any case, 
it's definitely nothing to worry about.

John Norstad
Academic Computing and Network Services
Northwestern University
jln@acns.nwu.edu