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From: charles@hpcvca.CV.HP.COM (Charles Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: VIRUS DAMAGE, CONSEQUENCES (Hate Mail)
Message-ID: <5660069@hpcvca.CV.HP.COM>
Date: 12 Jan 90 00:00:39 GMT
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Organization: Hewlett-Packard Co., Corvallis, Oregon
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> 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.

Not necessarily.  One problem with the Amiga IMHO is that the path
command always places the current directory first on the path for the
CLI.  So if you CD into a directory with an infected DIR and then ask
for a DIR your system can be infected.  I assume this can be avoided
by making commands resident, but how many people have *all* of their
commands resident?

> 	Still virus-free,
> 	Charles Poirier

Cross your fingers.
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