Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!lavaca.uh.edu!menudo.uh.edu!csuna!wjin From: wjin@csuna.cs.uh.edu (Woochang Jin) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: New anti-virals from McAfee's BBS uploaded to SIMTEL20 Message-ID: <1990Dec6.230015.9915@menudo.uh.edu> Date: 6 Dec 90 23:00:15 GMT References: <1990Dec6.082850.27365@menudo.uh.edu> <4142@vela.acs.oakland.edu> <1990Dec6.200629.11272@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> Sender: nntppost@menudo.uh.edu (NNTP Posting Service) Reply-To: wjin@csuna.UUCP (Woochang Jin) Organization: University of Houston Lines: 37 In article <1990Dec6.200629.11272@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> cy5@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Conway Yee) writes: >In article <4142@vela.acs.oakland.edu> w8sdz@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Keith Petersen) writes: >>wjin@viking.UUCP (Woochang Jin) writes about my posting announcing >>new anti-virals uploaded to SIMTEL20: >> >>>How do I know whether these anti-virals themselves may be infected or not ? >> >>The ZIP files were NOT repacked. They appear on SIMTEL20 *exactly* as >>they appear on the author's BBS. What more do you want? I took the >>time and effort to download them from the Homebase (author's) BBS so >>net users could get them from SIMTEL20. I have also posted them to >>Usenet's comp.binaries.ibm.pc. >> >>If you don't trust me, download them from Homebase yourself! >>The phone number is in the doc file. >> >>Keith >>-- >>Keith Petersen > >Well, I, for one, am very grateful that you did do so. Thank you. > Well, my intention was not personal. I have never used any anti-virals because I normally believe others and I don't have such important data in my disk and the disk size is only 40 M. I don't know whether I am infected or not but I think I am O.K. (at least for two years) Since many kinds of anti-virals are ubiquitous, I was just curious. Again, I did not mean that Keith was suspicious or something like that. I should have asked : Suppose you want to be 100 % safe. Can you do it by using anti-virals not knowing that they are safe ? Sorry, if I causea a problem. ------- W. Jin