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From: tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: YOURWAY.EXE virus
Message-ID: <70457006@bfmny0.BFM.COM>
Date: 14 Mar 91 01:54:44 GMT
References: <4253.27de98b2@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu> <1991Mar14.185158.7690@agate.berkeley.edu>
Reply-To: tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff)
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In article <1991Mar14.185158.7690@agate.berkeley.edu> korpela@stew.ssl.berkeley.edu (Eric J. Korpela) writes:
>I wish people would stop referring to YOURWAY.EXE as having a virus.  
>From what I have heard, it sounds like YOURWAY.EXE is a Trojan.  Until
>you hear some evidence that YOURWAY.EXE is infecting other EXE files
>call it a Trojan.  A little proper terminology can save a lot of trouble.
>A person who steps on a mine isn't killed by biological warfare.

On the other hand, if YOURWAY is a legitimate commercial or shareware
product, and that "Ha Ha Ha" thing got tacked onto a copy somehow and is
spreading around, then it IS a virus.  So we need more info.

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