Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cornell!biar!trebor
From: trebor@biar.UUCP (Robert J Woodhead)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Where have the Viruses been found?
Message-ID: <387@biar.UUCP>
Date: 16 Mar 89 14:29:11 GMT
References: <730@metasoft.UUCP>
Reply-To: trebor@biar.UUCP (Robert J Woodhead)
Organization: Biar Games, Inc.
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In article <730@metasoft.UUCP> alan@metasoft.UUCP (Alan Epstein) writes:
>
>I know I may be opening a can of worms with this question, but....
>
>What programs have been found to be carrying the known
>viruses? This is a different question from "What programs
>have been infected with the known viruses?", since secondary
>infections are to be expected.
>
>What I'm asking is for a list of posted and/or public domain
>software which are carriers and should be avoided.

It's an impossible and pointless question to answer, since any software
is guilty until proven innocent.  The _only_ safe policy if you are a
BBS owner is to check every single posting before anyone is allowed to
download it.

To my knowlege, there hasn't been a case of a trojan horse program that
carries a virus, except for two Hypercard stacks, one which carried the
defunct Peace virus, and the other which carried the Dukakis virus, which
was actually written in Hypertalk.
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