Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!hao!noao!stsci!itkin
From: itkin@stsci.EDU (Elliot Itkin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Virus flame!
Message-ID: <170@mithras>
Date: 28 Dec 87 14:09:00 GMT
Organization: Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD 21218
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Keywords: Kill the hacker.

This is to the person who wrote Virus (and any clones thereof) (especially
because he is probably proud of it!):

Your *nifty* *clever* program is the same as the *nifty*
*clever* scheme of placing cyanide in Tylenol capsules without anyone
knowing.  The situation is identical although the punishment not
quite as extreme.  You are hurting people you don't know in order 
to show that you can do it.

An innocent gets burned: Apparently virus doesn't work too good on the A2000.
I was at the dealer.  A tiny woman had come in carrying the A2000 that she
had bought for her son and was returning it for a second time.  She already 
owned a 500.  Apparently she had tried some infected games from the 500 
very shortly after plugging it in.  It wouln't work.  Then she tried 
Workbench - wouldn't boot.  She tried it on the 500 and it worked.  That 
looked like a bad 2000.  She brought it back.  They tested it and it worked
fine.  They said it might be her power or interference.  She carried it
back home.  She bought a line filter and also moved her TV! and her 500!  
Same problem.  On the second go around (this is the one I observed), she 
brought back the whole thing including the Workbench.  It was then the 
dealer noticed the sabotage and fixed her workbench and gave her a copy of 
the virus checker (semi-happy ending).

MAY VIRUS BE THE ONLY THING YOU ARE REMEMBERED FOR.
MAY YOUR VIRUS REPUTATION FOLLOW YOU AND NO EMPLOYER EVER GIVE A 
CRIMINAL LIKE YOU A JOB.
MAY YOU FOREVER BE KNOWN AS A 'HACKER' AND NOT A PROGRAMMER.
MAY ^%$%$##@#%^^*&^%$#@#.
MAY YOU ATTEMPT TO ANSWER THIS FLAME AND EXPOSE YOURSELF AS THE VILLIAN
THAT YOU ARE.