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From: davidsen@steinmetz.ge.com (Wm. E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Virus warning
Keywords: arcmaster,bugs
Message-ID: <13506@steinmetz.ge.com>
Date: 31 Mar 89 19:30:27 GMT
References: <373@nbires.nbi.com> <9948@smoke.BRL.MIL> <4251@alvin.mcnc.org>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY
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In article <4251@alvin.mcnc.org> felstein@mcnc.org.UUCP (Bruce M. Felstein) writes:
| The supposed bugs in ARCMASTER version 4xx and higher do not exist. If
| people would bother to read the doc files they would have learned that
| the directory that you specify for it to use to unarc and arc files to 
| MUST be a special blank directory, since it will erase the entire contents
| of the directory after it finishes rearchiving the file. If you didn't
| bother to read the docs you might specify your root directory to use
| for this function and after ARCMASTER was done, it would automatically
| erase all files in that directory.

  Arther Clarke said "Any technology sufficiently advanced is
indistinguisable from magic." I say "A program sufficiently destructive
in default operation is indistinguishable from a trojan."

  BTW: a virus spreads, the default of this program is to sterilize
itself and your files. Perhaps we need a new class of evil, the
"kamakazi."

  I have removed this program from the sixhub archives.
-- 
	bill davidsen		(wedu@crd.GE.COM)
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"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me