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Subject: MS-Word-1.0 "crime doesn't pay" rumor???
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Date: 10 Jun 89 17:01:00 GMT
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Roman Olynyk (cc011054@wvmvaxa.wvnet.edu) writes:
>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..."

Can anyone verify/refute this?  Has this been seen elsewhere (perhaps
his copy is infected by an ordinary virus)?  Can anyone at Microsoft
make *objective* comments.  How about anyone with an original,
unaltered copy of MS-Word 1.0?  Please examine the disk & report the
location of the string, so others can find it.  I hope this is just a
rumor.

- -David Richardson,                    The University of Texas at Arlington
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