Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!rutgers!netnews.upenn.edu!vax1.cc.lehigh.edu!sei.cmu.edu!krvw From: WHMurray@DOCKMASTER.ARPA Newsgroups: comp.virus Subject: AIDS Program (PC) Message-ID: <0009.9001021304.AA00688@ge.sei.cmu.edu> Date: 21 Dec 89 20:15:00 GMT Sender: Virus Discussion List Lines: 16 Approved: krvw@sei.cmu.edu Does the AIDS program do what it purports to do? Is that something that the recipients were interested in having done? Was it worth $.50 a day? It is necessary to understand the answers to these questions in order to know whether we are dealing with: 1) Attempted extortion; 2) A very expensive, obscurely motivated, and otherwise gratuitous attack; 3) Or, a peculiarly inept attempt to market a program. William Hugh Murray, Fellow, Information System Security, Ernst & Young 2000 National City Center Cleveland, Ohio 44114 21 Locust Avenue, Suite 2D, New Canaan, Connecticut 06840