Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!unh!al671
From: al671@unh.UUCP (Anthony   Lapadula)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Bad placing of Atari ST binarie
Message-ID: <239@unh.UUCP>
Date: 7 Mar 88 17:26:17 GMT
References: <672@blue.engin.umich.edu> <11400012@silver>
Organization: University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH
Lines: 30
Summary: Blind faith in others?

In article <11400012@silver>, ferneau@silver.bacs.indiana.edu writes:
> 
>I find it hard to believe that someone is going to take the time to
>archive, uuencode and upload a trojan horse program to the net.
>Maybe it is my trust in people, but I don't think it is going to happen.
>I think we can trust the fellow netters out there.
>

Oh, I suppose that anyone devious enough to write a virus would not
want to distribute it as far and wide as s/he could?  Granted, 
BBS sysops (and BITNET moderators) won't catch all buggy/malicious
code, but I'd rather know that someone else has tried a program on
their equipment before I try it on mine.


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>ferneau@silver.bacs.indiana.edu  *  Mark Ferneau
>ihnp4!inuxc!iuvax!silver!ferneau * 
>ferneau@silver.UUCP              *  'This Space Intentionally left blank'
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