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From: kmw@ardent.UUCP (Ken Wallich)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: StuffIt a Virus ?
Message-ID: <355@ardent.UUCP>
Date: 26 Apr 88 19:13:01 GMT
References: <350@matr-a.UUCP>
Reply-To: kmw@ardent.UUCP (Ken Wallich)
Organization: Ardent Computer
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Keywords: Trojan Horse Stuff It

In article <350@matr-a.UUCP> ken@matr-a.UUCP (Ken Farnen) writes:
>I have just read a short piece in a UK computer paper about viruses in general.
>
>There was what ammounted to a 'throwaway' comment that the Mac community was
>heavily infected by the 'Stuff It' virus.
>
>If not, does anyone know how such a misunderstanding could arise ?
>

no, No, NO!  Stuffit is nothing resembling a virus.  Geesh, some idiot
who writes (ha!) for a *UK* computer rag says something stupid, and folks
get worried.  Now uniformed folks are gonna think whenever their machine
does something strange that it must have been that "stuffit virus" again.

Stuffif is a great utility and does lots of great things.  Let's not
go dragging it's name through the mud.

Some people are just too paranoid for their own good (like me :-).


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