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From: Michael.Burton@p3.f200.n226.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Michael Burton)
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Subject: RE: Disinfectant 1.6 oddity
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Date: 25 Mar 90 06:05:17 GMT
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   Adam Frix wrote that he discovered a popular obscenity while
poking around in Disinfectant:
> 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'll betcha a nickel that the obscenity in Disinfectant is something
that the program looks for when it riffles through your resource files.
Very likely some existing virus adds one or more resources of that type,
or by that name.  (The word also holds a strange fascination to the
sort of people who write viruses, so even if it's not part of an
existing virus, it's the sort of thing a suspicious-minded anti-virus
program might want to keep an eye out for.)
   Don't panic.


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