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From: 0003965782@mcimail.com (Sanford Sherizen)
Newsgroups: comp.virus
Subject: Re: Dark Avenger frequency (David Chess)
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Date: 27 Nov 90 18:58:00 GMT
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>One person, he says, tells him that he's seeing several Dark Avenger reports
>per week.  Does this agree with anyone else's observations?  We get rather few
>reports of the Dark Avenger (or the VACSINA, or any other TPxxVIRs, or really
>any other "Bulgarian" viruses); are there places (many places?) in the world
>where these viruses are very common?

USSR installations have been hit many times by various "Bulgarian"
viruses.  Bulgaria was a significant supplier of hardware and software
for the Soviets, although I suspect it is much less so now.  Reports
have also been given about these viruses spreading through Eastern
Bloc nations.  A brief discussion on this is found in my COMPUTERWORLD
article, "Lack in the USSR" (Aug. 20, 1990, InDepth, 73-74).

Sandy