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From: alexis@ccnysci.UUCP (Alexis Rosen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Mac Viruses: How long before...?
Message-ID: <1416@ccnysci.UUCP>
Date: 17 Mar 89 18:13:22 GMT
References: <1551@etive.ed.ac.uk> <709@unocss.UUCP> <380@biar.UUCP>
Reply-To: alexis@ccnysci.UUCP (Alexis Rosen)
Organization: City College of New York
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In article <380@biar.UUCP> trebor@biar.UUCP (Robert J Woodhead) writes:
>
>In general, not much at all.  No known nVIR virus is malevolent.  Most
>do nothing.  Some attempt to speak or make sounds.

Well. Fortunately, that appears to be true now. However, the original nVIR
*WAS* malevolent, deleting files once out of every sixteen times. Whatever
people say about Mattias Urlichs' common sense, we probably have him to
thank that that strain is now, apparently, extinct.

This is from memory... More details can probably be found in various archives
where the original articles describing nVIR are.

Alexis Rosen
alexis@ccnysci.uucp