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From: alexis@ccnysci.UUCP (Alexis Rosen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Transfers and Viruses
Keywords: virus transfer
Message-ID: <1006@ccnysci.UUCP>
Date: 18 Nov 88 11:55:39 GMT
References: <76699@sun.uucp> <206@internal.Apple.COM> <6127@netnews.upenn.edu> <219@internal.Apple.COM> <577@poseidon.ATT.COM> <17975@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> <17991@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> <17119@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>
Reply-To: alexis@ccnysci.UUCP (Alexis Rosen)
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In article <17119@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> c60a-3ez@web-3f.berkeley.edu
(Cyrus Harmon) writes:
>I am a programmer for a lab in San Francisco and we obtained a
>60 Meg tape backup from CMS.  The thing works fine but the problem is
>that our system somehow became infected with Scores. [...] So, it appears that
>since I just copied the tape backup program onto our hard disk and didn't
>use the floppy for much of anything, CMS is the source of the
>virus.  If I can prove that the last modification of the system
>took place before I purchased program can CMS be held responsible
>for the damage to our system and the time that it took to rid the
>system of the virus?  Has anyone else had similar problems with
>CMS?

Well, I usually like CMS, but that is just inexcusably sloppy. What's more,
if it really is them, they should know better, because this is NOT the first
time. They distributed via their bbs, until recently, a beta release of their
tape backup software. It had an inactive nVIR virus in it. I should stress
that it WAS NOT INFECTED OR INFECTIOUS since their CODE 1 resource was LOCKED
and therefore immune to nVIR. Nevertheless, they knew nVIR was getting around
on their systems and should have taken sufficient precautions so that SCORES
couldn't get in.

Really, how much effort does it take to keep Vaccine in your system folder???

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