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From: nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson)
Newsgroups: comp.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Commercial liability for distributing a virus
Message-ID: <622@sun.soe.clarkson.edu>
Date: 24 Mar 88 21:51:31 GMT
References: <500@xios.XIOS.UUCP> <4811@ecsvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu.UUCP (Russ Nelson)
Organization: Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY
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In article <4811@ecsvax.UUCP> kotlas@ecsvax.UUCP (Carolyn M. Kotlas) writes:
>In article <500@xios.XIOS.UUCP>, dont@xios.XIOS.UUCP (Don Taylor) writes:> 
>> [I did ] a 'strings' on MS Word (version 2 I think) and I saw a chilling
>> message that said something to the effect: 'the fruits of evil are bitter,
>> wiping your hard disk now...'.
>This isn't the only instance of little messages being sprinkled in
>Microsoft products.

I saw a message that went approximately like this in a Microsoft program
that I disassembled.  The message would appear if you invoked the program
with an (undocumented) /M switch.  Unfortunately, I cannot locate the
program again.  Maybe it was the mouse driver, maybe it was recover.

Chris Peters worked on the new dos.  Microsoft rules ok!

I hope you're embarrassed about this now, Chris...
-- 
-russ
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