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From: hallett@hamlet.steinmetz (Jeff A. Hallett)
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Subject: Computer Socio-paths (was Re: nVIR virus)
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Date: 17 Mar 88 15:32:50 GMT
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Keywords: virus nvir, sickness, castration

In article <22168@bbn.COM> dredick@vax.bbn.com (The Druid) writes:
>
>	I am really interested in the make-up of a virus and the 
>vaccination. Could someone send me or point me to a SOURCE for a sample
>benign virus or vaccination!
>
>Many Thanks,
>-- The Druid
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>=    The Druid (dredick@bbn.com)                                              =
>=                   "Did you ever feel that you were a typewriter,            =
>=                    when everone else in the world was a wordprocessor"      =
>===============================================================================


Don't trust anyone who can't even sign his real name to his postings.
:^):^):^)

As an aside, it appears that Don Brown (writer of Vaccine!) at CE
Software has actually received threats of things that would happen if
he released it.  They seem to be coming from a person identified only
as "Mike" on Compuserve.  "Mike" threatens to release a virus designed
to destroy people's harddisks should Don release Vaccine!

It is a curiosity to know what would provoke someone to be so
socio-pathological.  What could possibly motivate someone to take a
stance like this?  The only conclusion is that this person is just
plain evil, derives pleasure from releasing viruses and won't permit
anyone to interfere in his fun; a sick attitude at best.

As a precaution, when you download, keep a skeleton system disk handy.
Transfer the program to that disk, write-protect it and unmount your
harddisk before starting it up.  This should be a lot safer and good
protection against sick minds like "Mike"'s.


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