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From: keating@rex.cs.tulane.edu (John W. Keating)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Re;"Curse-virus" orig.article
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Date: 3 Nov 90 19:38:06 GMT
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white@csvax.cs.ukans.edu (Kevin S. White) writes:

>       I'm also waiting to see if anyone can "prove" that CURSE.EXE is
>infected.

    I think that the general consensus is that if something is wrong with
the curse program, that it is a trojan, and not a virus.

>       I've used it since the summer, and have never had trouble with it.

    I'm beginning to believe that it was a false alarm, myself.  The fact
that it overwrites the Load= line in win.ini probably had a large part to
do with the scare.  I have removed it from my directory, however, both
because I actually found that I preferred the arrow, and that it is better
to be safe than sorry.  (Decide for yourself what you are going to do.)

>This discussion reminds me of the (typical) Macintosh user who, when faced
>with what s/he feels is a strange event, lunges for the anti-virus software.
>I can't find a single Macintosh on campus that doesn't have some kind of
>detection software installed.  I also can't find more than 2 or 3 MSDOS users
>who have actually been hit by a virus.  Still waiting for the proof...

    I, too, have noticed that lack of actual proven viruses that have
appeared around here on PC's.  On the other hand, Macs do have a *big*
problem with them.  I don't know how many times I've scanned a disk on
one of our systems here, and found that the disk needed to be "sanitized."
Apparently, it is because of how the mac shares information or some such.
(Never did like the buggers anyway...  :^)

    John Keating
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