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From: poirier@dg-rtp.dg.com (Charles Poirier)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: VIRUS DAMAGE, CONSEQUENCES (Hate Mail)
Summary: Print-shop virus?
Message-ID: <1922@xyzzy.UUCP>
Date: 9 Jan 90 22:30:45 GMT
References: <25716@cup.portal.com>
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Reply-To: poirier@dg-rtp.dg.com (  Poirier local)
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In article <25716@cup.portal.com> Classic_-_Concepts@cup.portal.com writes:
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>    No more.  My favorite places don't provide quick turn-around anymore 
>because of virus-infected diskettes which have come in.  Now they take 
>diskettes, do careful (read 'time-consuming') checks for viruses and then
>do the job.  We have to make a second trip to pick them up hours later,
>or days later, even if it's a very small job.  (Cost goes up, too.)
>                                  LadyHawke@cup.portal.com

I never heard of a virus being propagated through data files.  All your
print shop has to do is just not execute anything on your data disk.
Anything that needs to be executed, they should maintain their own safe
copy of.  Right??  Sounds like a case of computer-illiterate paranoia on
the part of the shop.

	Still virus-free,
	Charles Poirier