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From: boris@world.std.com (Boris Levitin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: NetBunny revisited
Message-ID: <1991Jan10.053953.4933@world.std.com>
Date: 10 Jan 91 05:39:53 GMT
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jkain@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Jeff Kain) writes:
>from the descriptions of NetBunny posted here and
>elsewhere, it looks like it could be VERY annoying if misused.  If one
>person on campus got ahold of netBunny, (s)he could really cause a lot
>of headaches anywhere on our network, from administrators to
>professors to students - it would seem anyone on the Ethernet would be
>at risk for that pink rabbit to come marching across the screen!
>And if Eveready supported this, it would certainly not be good for
>their image.

Of course, involuntary network infestation of a Mac is impossible.  NetBunny
requires an INIT on a machine before the former can "infest" the latter.