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From: richard@claris.UUCP (Richard Scorer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: StuffIt a Virus ?
Message-ID: <1130@claris.UUCP>
Date: 27 Apr 88 01:17:03 GMT
References: <350@matr-a.UUCP> <355@ardent.UUCP>
Reply-To: richard@claris.UUCP (Richard Scorer)
Organization: Claris Corporation, Mountain View CA
Lines: 44
Keywords: Trojan Horse Stuff It
Summary: Yes, but only version 1.2, and then only from Texas.

In article <355@ardent.UUCP> kmw@ardent.UUCP (Ken Wallich) writes:
|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.
|
|no, No, NO!  Stuffit is nothing resembling a virus.  Geesh, some idiot
YES YES YES - it did have a virus.
|who writes (ha!) for a *UK* computer rag says something stupid, and folks
            ^^^^^ ?
|get worried.  Now uniformed folks are gonna think whenever their machine
                    ^ What, only Army, Navy and Marines ?? :->
|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 :-).
|
|
|----
|
|Ken Wallich		*If anyone wants my opinions, they can have them*
                        * No thanks *
|Consultant		kmw@ardent
|DCI			hplabs!ardent!kmw

Yes,yes,yes...  StuffIt version 1.2 was contaminated for a short period of time.
However, version 1.40A is out now, and does not have the virus in it.

Raymond corrected the problem almost immediately.

The problem with stories like these, is that no-one actually knows what started
the virus.  Apparently some numbskull in Texas posted the virused copy of 
Stuffit.

So, Ken - you're wrong.  Whoever wrote this piece is obviously not as moronic
as you seem to think he is.  Just 'cos he writes in the UK doesn't mean he
doesn't know what's happening - he knows more than you, for example...

FLAMEs to /dev/null.  Thanks

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