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From: davids@dasys1.UUCP (David Schenfeld)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: StuffIt a Virus ?
Message-ID: <4132@dasys1.UUCP>
Date: 27 Apr 88 20:42:32 GMT
References: <350@matr-a.UUCP>
Organization: The Big Electric Cat
Lines: 32
Keywords: Trojan Horse Stuff It
Summary: Stuffit is no trojan/virus

In article <350@matr-a.UUCP>, ken@matr-a.UUCP (Ken Farnen) writes:
> 
> OK, I know that the free rags are not the most accurate of sources, but I
> feel I must ask:
> 
> IS STUFFIT A TROJAN HORSE ?????????
>
 There was a report about an infected StuffIt that was circulating in Texas.
The infected program was an OLD version 1.2x.  There have been general
references to StuffIt in some publications, including MacWEEK and Macintosh
today, saying things to the effect of "...and now StuffIt is infected."
I wrote a letter to the editor of MacWEEK expressing my anger over such an
irresponsible and general comment and I was informed that a correction will 
be printed.
StuffIt as released by its author, Raymond Lau, is *NOT* infected.  The latest
version 1.40A is clean, and so have been the previous versions.
I hate to make this analogy, (please, no flames) but just as you have to be
careful these days with new girlfriends/boyfriends (referring to the AIDS
crisis), if you don't know where a program has been, you take your own
chances.
If you received StuffIt directly from the author, or if you downloaded a 
copy from (again, no flames) one of the commercial networks that Mr. Lau
uploads directly to, you can be assured that you received a virus free
program.
Since StuffIt is a popular program withing the telecomm community, it makes
a good target for some shady person to inject it with a 'virus'.

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