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From: jack@cs.glasgow.ac.uk (Mr Jack Campin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: StuffIt 1.31 and virus paranoia
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Date: 3 May 88 10:47:02 GMT
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In article <4964@cup.portal.com> Fabian_Fabe_Ramirez@cup.portal.com writes:
>Please note that only a "tampered" version of StuffIt v1.20, that originated
>somewhere in Texas, caused this "problem" with StuffIt!  If you got v1.31 from
>another source or from a direct download from CompuServe, it isn't "infected."

>If you have an "infection," I'd recommend using either Interferon 2.0 and
>Ferret 1.1 to "diagnose" your stuff.

Thanks, Fabian. I'm glad to have been proved wrong on that one.

However: those antiviral programs, and certain others people have mentioned to
me in email, have not appeared on the net. Surely they are a higher priority
than some of the dross that comp.binaries.mac has been putting out lately? (An
umpteen-part Hypercard stack for filling in American tax forms, broadcast to
the entire WORLD???)

How about posting them? I assume it's a waste of time trying to prod
comp.binaries.mac into action, so why not misc.security? - that's a
moderated newsgroup too, hence somewhat trustworthy.

Ultimately we are likely to need a sci.med.binaries.mac :-).

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