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From: bill@braille.uwo.ca (Bill Carss)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Heatseeker
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Date: 21 Jun 91 20:33:37 GMT
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TMPLee@DOCKMASTER.NCSC.MIL writes:

>For one, I wouldn't touch this offer with a ten foot pole -- it sounds
>like the perfect scenario for introducing and propagating a virus:  a)
>the program sounds too good to be true, and b) the author refuses to
>supply source.  I do hope that anyone foolish enough to grab a copy of
>it never thereafter downloads any other software to the net -- the fact
>that everything seems OK for you doesn't mean there hasn't been
>something subtly planted that will show up a few generations later.

If you don't have the brains to take a few simple precautions you are 
probably right not to try the new software that creative people are
generating.  Sureley (and I will have to call you that because I don't know
your first name) your aren't suggesting that everyone out there in the 
big wide world is sitting at home trying to come up with a way of 
infecting your (or our) machines at the first possible chance.  I have been
corresponding with the author of HEATSEAKER for a while now and (as they
say) know how to get hold of him.  If he intended to spread some virus 
around it would be a silly thing to do because others besides myself know
who and where he is.  In addition, if you had read the posts, you would have
read that sourse will be available in the future - just not at the moment 
while the program is beign beta tested (actually alpha tested at his home
first and then beta tested by others).

I agree that some awareness of virus infection is a good idea, but to pan 
something out of hand, before it has been looked at is DOWN RIGHT STUPID
AND SOUNDS TO ME LIKE SOUR GRAPES BECAUSE YOU DIDN'T THINK TO WRITE 
SUCH A PROGRAM YOURSELF!1

OR MAYBE YOU WERE PLANNING TO SPREAD SOME VIRUS WITH A UTILITY PROGRAM
OF YOUR OWN AND HEATSEAKER IS STEALING YOUR THUNDER!!!

Get a life!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
-- 
Bill Carss
bill@braille.uwo.ca