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From: jln@eecs.nwu.edu (John Norstad)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: SCORES ordeal + new(?) SCORES info
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Date: 13 Oct 88 15:52:02 GMT
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Jim Harvey writes:
 
>Run KillScores, Ferret, Virus RX from Apple, and any other anti-viral
>utility, on all of your floppies. Now you're clean....

Virus Rx from Apple will detect the Scores virus, but not get rid of it.
Ferret has a number of serious bugs, and in some cases will leave your
system infected, as I reported in a posting to comp.sys.mac on 5/2/88.
I recommend KillScores.
 
>Vaccine will warn you RIGHT AWAY if Scores is trying to infect your 
>system.

Vaccine will try to warn you by putting up a dialog box.  Unfortunately,
at the time Scores tries to infect your system the dialog manager is not
yet initialized, so Vaccine bombs.  Your system is protected (not infected),
but the only warning you get is the system error alert.
 
>You're all set-- unless you bought programs from EDS Data Systems. 
>SCORES deliberately damages applications with creator types from EDS.

According to magazine articles (see InfoWorld and MacWeek in 
particular), the programs in question (VULT and ERIC) were never released
or sold to the general public.

John Norstad
Academic Computing and Network Services
Northwestern University

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