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From: physi-hf@garnet.berkeley.edu (Howard Haruo Fukuda)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: What to do with comp.binaries.mac?
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Date: 23 Nov 90 07:01:42 GMT
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In article <481@scubed.SCUBED.COM> warner@scubed.com (Ken Warner) writes:
>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'?

When a file is binhexed and then unbinhexed, the unbinhexed file is a
duplicate of the original.  So if a program is infected by a virus, binhexed
and uploaded, the downloaded and unbinhexed program will still be infected.

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

Not really sure.

-Howard