Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!usc!rutgers!netnews.upenn.edu!vax1.cc.lehigh.edu!sei.cmu.edu!krvw From: magik@chinet.chi.il.us (Ben Liberman) Newsgroups: comp.virus Subject: Re: Shrink Wrap...still safe? Message-ID: <0007.9001121151.AA02343@ge.sei.cmu.edu> Date: 12 Jan 90 04:27:09 GMT Sender: Virus Discussion List Lines: 14 Approved: krvw@sei.cmu.edu JZH1@MARISTB.BITNET (Craig W. Fisher) writes: >At a meeting yesterday some people made comments that some viruses >have been found in shrink-wrapped diskettes. This did surprise me as >we have been using a rule of thumb to stick to shrink wrapped software >to help avoid viruses. A problem that may show up with shrink warped (sic) software is that sometimes retailers will take back software from customers, and re-shrink warp it, at the store. If the customer tried the software out on an infected machine.... - -- ------------ ------------ ---------------------- Ben Liberman USENET magik@chinet.chi.il.us GEnie,Delphi MAGIK