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From: warner@scubed.com (Ken Warner)
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Subject: Re: What to do with comp.binaries.mac?
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Date: 22 Nov 90 16:45:17 GMT
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    In article <1990Nov21.211531.4905@Neon.Stanford.EDU> rfischer@Neon.Stanford.EDU (Raymond C. Fischer) writes:
    >In article <1990Nov20.222319.7465@techbook.com> jamesd@techbook.com (James Deibele) writes:
    >>I do with these files?  They all seem to be in BinHex format or some other
    >>type of ASCII encoding.  Is there a program that runs under UNIX [etc.]
    >Available from sumex-aim.stanford.edu in the /info-mac/unix directory
    >is a program called xbin-to-binary.shar [etc.]

Well, this brings to my mind what must be an often asked question.  Is it
possible for a virus to get binhexed into a program, and when that program (or
whatever) is un-binhexed could the virus come back to life.  Or is there
something about binhexing that "kills" virus'?

I think I read something about sumex and other sources of ftp'able stuff
checking for virus'.  It that true?

Ken Warner