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From: craparotta@kyoa.DEC.COM (Physical T5--Virtual T7)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Viruses...
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Date: 6 Aug 88 16:38:47 GMT
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Clint writes....

>One of the most devious virus attempts I have seen is a 'virus 
>eliminator' that supposedly looked for CyberAIDS (supposedly 
>written by Tom E. Hawk) in SYS files and 'destroyed' it.  Well,
>a friend and I tried it on a backup copy of ProTERM which we 
>obviously knew was NOT contaminated.  When the program came up 
>with a 'this disk is contaminated, file PRODOS has been cured' or
>something to that effect, we became curious.  The program 
>itself installed CyberAIDS in the PRODOS file.  Quite nasty, 
>eh?  I suggest writing thy own virus debuggers!
 
>Clint Fleckenstein ("SpyroGyra")
NU132271@NDSUVM1.BITNET
nubode@plains.nodak.edu
nubode@NDSUVAX.BITNET
 

Clint,

I know "Tom E Hawk" personally, and KNOW FOR A FACT [something you don't] that
he DID NOT write ANY VIRUS for the APPLE II!!! Please try not to post things
about people that you obviously don't know anything about!!! 

Joe