Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!dalcs!garfield!john13 From: john13@garfield.UUCP (John Russell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: New Virus;deadly Keywords: killer virus on the loose Message-ID: <4339@garfield.UUCP> Date: 5 Jan 88 02:32:03 GMT References: <17234@topaz.rutgers.edu> <1425@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> <914@louie.udel.EDU> Reply-To: john13@garfield.UUCP (John Russell) Distribution: na Organization: Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's Lines: 20 In article <914@louie.udel.EDU> rminnich@udel.EDU (Ron Minnich) writes: >And how can a company lose a whole product? This >seems kind of weird; did they only have one backup disk, and not >have a string of backup disks? This is a depressing thought... "gee, my first 5 backup disks won't boot, I'll Ctrl-Amiga-Amiga and put in backup #6". Still, I'd hope that people doing commercial work would have several non- bootable disks with running versions of their program. That way the only thing they might lose to the virus is their copy-protection scheme. I just hope I never try to upload 2 weeks work on a newer version of a program and do a kermit instead of by mistake :-) ! John -- " 'Emergency room'! AUUUGGGH! That's where I'll be going." "It looks like she needs to have this Bonus Round pumped out of her!" -- Pat Sajak consoles an unsuccessful Wheel-of-Fortune contestant