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From: bchurch@oucsace.cs.OHIOU.EDU (Bob Church)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Virus on the GS?
Summary: Viri everywhere
Keywords: Virus GS WriteIt?
Message-ID: <1496@oucsace.cs.OHIOU.EDU>
Date: 30 Jun 90 13:15:35 GMT
References: <923@wraith.cs.uow.edu.au> <42492@apple.Apple.COM>
Organization: Ohio University CS Dept., Athens
Lines: 33

In article <42492@apple.Apple.COM>, dlyons@Apple.COM (David A. Lyons) writes:
> In article <923@wraith.cs.uow.edu.au> u8530671@cs.uow.edu.au (Mark 'Scunge' Wann) writes:
> >	G'day. The following is being posted on behalf of a friend of 
> >mine (Brian) who is probably having trouble with viruses and wants to
> >know if there's a known problem with any of the software he was using
> >or [...]
> 
> Brian is probably *not* having trouble with viruses.
> 
The virus bogeyman is everywhere. In the student labs on the campus 
 here it's like sitting through a point 7 earthquake. The tables all
butt up to each other and the force of students literally throwing
themselves into chairs is enough to spill a glass of water if you
were foolish enough to have one sitting on the table. I've seen 
students move SE30's with built in hard drives to adjust for the
glare on the screen while the machine, and hence the internal drive,
were powered up. Whenever these machines crash (quite often) it's
blamed on the ubiquitous virus. A young man in our users group
had an Apple //+. One day the mother board went taking several
chips with it. He proudly announced to the club that a "worm"
had destroyed his computer. (seriously).
This would all be funny but all too often the last program ran is
blamed for harboring the virus. The resulting rumors can be deadly
for someone trying to pay his rent by writing and selling software.
 
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*   bob church  bchurch@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu                       *
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*  If economics isn't an "exact" science why do computers crash    *
*  so much more often than the stock market?                       *
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