Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!caen!uflorida!travis!hardy!leoh From: leoh@hardy.hdw.csd.harris.com (Leo Hinds) Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms Subject: Re: ***WARNING*** possible windows virus in the cica uploads directory Keywords: yourway virus windows Message-ID: <2624@travis.csd.harris.com> Date: 14 Mar 91 14:29:16 GMT References: <2610@travis.csd.harris.com> <1991Mar13.210331.5957@cs.uoregon.edu> Sender: news@travis.csd.harris.com Organization: Harris Computer Systems, Ft. Lauderdale, FL Lines: 25 In article <1991Mar13.210331.5957@cs.uoregon.edu> akm@cs.uoregon.edu (Anant Kartik Mithal) writes: >This seems to imply that you had *two* win.ini files, which doesn't >sound good to me. On the other hand, I know absolutely nothing about >running windows from a network, so this might be a reasonable thing to >do. Not knowing what this program was going to do I copied the win.ini file (luckily I did !) into the YourWay directory, JUST for the purposes of trying out the program. >If I understand correctly, you had two win.inis. Which one got trashed? The one in the windows directory >I *believe* that yourway is a commerical product, of which this is a >demo version. I think I recall seeing a picture of it in PCWeek or >InfoWorld. There is a commercial version ($120) and a demo/testdrive version. The demo version is what did it to me. leoh@hdw.csd.harris.com Leo Hinds (305)973-5229 Gfx ... gfx ... :-) whfg orpnhfr V "ebg"grq zl fvtangher svyr lbh guvax V nz n creireg ?!!!!!!? ... znlor arkg gvzr