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From: tim@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu (Timothy L. Kay)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Binary: McAfee's SCANV52 (latest version, includes AIDS)
Message-ID: <13153@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu>
Date: 5 Jan 90 20:27:19 GMT
References: <1027@tuminfo1.lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de>
Reply-To: tim@cit-vax.UUCP (Timothy L. Kay)
Organization: California Institute of Technology
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kluge@lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de (Oliver Kluge) writes:
>This is McAfee's SCANV52 in its latest version 1.8V52 virus checker
>which also checks for the AIDS trojan for all users who have
>waited invain on c.b.i.p.

> [uuencoded binary deleted]

Ever since the virus scares started, I have stopped using free software
unless I really needed it.  I would love to run this virus detector,
but it seems to me that a virus detector is a perfect place to transmit
a new virus.

The only way I would feel comfortable running such a program obtained
over the net is if it were distributed in source form.  I would then
compile it myself and use it.

Does anybody have similar feelings?  Is there a reason that the source
is not included in the previous posting?

Tim