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From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Heatseeker & Viruses
Message-ID: <16521@smoke.brl.mil>
Date: 24 Jun 91 17:12:04 GMT
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In article <1991Jun24.070520.23908@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> jb10320@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Jawaid Bazyar) writes:
>  But the real issue here is this:  who the hell cares enough to write a
>virus for the Apple II world?

And the real answer is:  There are people who, for whatever reason, do so.

>As an aside, there are (in my knowledge) two documented viruses for the 
>Apple II.

There are at least five that Bredon's Apple.Rx detects and disables, at
least one of them being rather new.