Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!uwvax!dogie!uwmcsd1!leah!itsgw!batcomputer!cornell!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!mp1u+ From: mp1u+@andrew.cmu.edu (Michael Portuesi) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: rus rumor! Message-ID: Date: 2 Jul 88 02:37:31 GMT References: <3152@crash.cts.com> Organization: Carnegie Mellon Lines: 26 In-Reply-To: <3152@crash.cts.com> > *Excerpts from ext.nn.comp.sys.amiga: 26-Jun-88 rus rumor! Greg* > *Beckham@pro-charlot (522)* > On FidoNet I caught wind of a *RUMOR* of another virus, just more deadly. > The rumor is that the viruse hides itself in your memory expansion, then when > you power down, it still lives! off of the battery for the clock. I don't know > how true or how bogus this is but I just thought I'd pass it along. I wouldn't trust *anything* I read on Fidonet. I read the Fidonet Amiga echo and only about 10% of the stuff that goes by isn't: * totally bogus. * Amiga vs. Atari ST flame. Basically, the tech level of the people on Fidonet isn't as high as it is here. Most of the people on Usenet program computers for a living, and it shows in the kinds of discussions we see. Many of the people on Fidonet are pimply-faced teenagers who just upgraded to an Amiga from the C-64. --M Michael Portuesi / Information Technology Center / Carnegie Mellon University ARPA/UUCP: mp1u+@andrew.cmu.edu BITNET: rainwalker@drycas "if you ain't ill it'll fix your car"