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From: andy@pro-palmtree.cts.com (Andy Stein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Heatseeker
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Date: 24 Jun 91 07:56:34 GMT
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In-Reply-To: message from TMPLee@DOCKMASTER.NCSC.MIL

    Maybe he just wants to get it beta-tested? Whenever someone comes out
with a new, innovative product, he is always shunned.  This is true with
Pennasillin, the airplane, and NutraSweet.  He might have a legitimate
program.  He might not.  But, let's give him the benefit of the doubt. 
These programs can always be tested for known viruses or destructive calls
(although the latter would be much harder to detect, since a utility
program tends to make destructive calls, such as formatting, deleting,
copying, etc.).  Why doesn't one person download this program from the
author, and see what happens with it.  He could isolate the program by only
using it with floppy disk drives, and not with hard drives, and I'm sure
after a few weeks it would be known if there were anything unKosher with
it.