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From: rjung@sal23.usc.edu (Robert Jung)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: A cure looking for a disease? (I hope)
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Date: 9 Mar 88 18:52:53 GMT
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In article <4235@umn-cs.cs.umn.edu> davidli@umn-cs.UUCP (Dave Meile) writes:
>In article <8803081650.AA29358@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> 051332@UOTTAWA.BITNET (John Turnbull) writes:
>>Does anybody have any information about this virus, its mode of
>>infection, mechanism, symptoms or how wide-spread it may have become?
>
>The program is legitimate.  There has been a virus located and dissected
>in Europe.  I first heard about it a month ago, when I got the back
>issues of an informational disk called ST NEWS from Richard Karsmakers from
>The Netherlands.  He was *quite* furious when the virus was discovered.

  Can you post a short summary of what is the purpose of the virus (ie,
what was it supposed to do)? There's been a lot of (now confirmed)
talks about the ST virus, but no one I've met can tell me just what it does.


						--R.J.
						B-)

What kind of a twisted mind would write such a thing?
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