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From: CC011054@WVNVAXA.WVNET.EDU (Roman Olynyk - Information Services)
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Subject: RE: Emergency contacts and vendors writing viruses
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Date: 8 Jun 89 18:10:00 GMT
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In mentioning the "Computer Emergency Response Team" at Carnegie-Mellon
as an Internet contact point for virus notification, you neglected to
provide any lead.  Is there an electronic mail address or telephone
number for the CERT?  [Ed. Sorry, the phone number for CERT is (412)
268-7090, and the e-mail address is CERT@SEI.CMU.EDU.]

Also, in the subject of "Are software developers releasing viruses," I
can add Microsoft Word... we have version 1.0 of Word at our site (if
you can imagine that!).  If you use a good disk editor and search for
the string "evil" you will find the text: "The tree of evil bears evil
fruit.  Crime does not pay.  Trashing program disk..."

I can't say that this may actually happen, since I haven't tempted
fate by making unauthorized copies.  However, it is a bit
disconcerting to see such a message imbedded in a commercial product.