Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!iuvax!bsu-cs!mithomas From: mithomas@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (Michael Thomas Niehaus) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: WDEF everywhere... Message-ID: <10774@bsu-cs.bsu.edu> Date: 18 Feb 90 20:21:15 GMT Organization: CS Dept, Ball St U, Muncie, Indiana Lines: 24 It seems that we have the wonderful WDEF virus all over the place here at Ball State. Fortunately, we found out where it came from in our case. Ball State is an avid user of WordPerfect for the PC. When WP for the Mac came out, they site licensed it to complement their site license of WP PC. (Yeah.) Now back in December, WordPerfect shipped a master disk for the WP 1.0.3 update to BSU. This master disk contained the WDEF virus, which was then spread to the whole campus. Apparently WordPerfect figured this out and notified the campus, which promptly went around to all of the labs and removed it (and they have now upgraded SAM so they should be in good shape). But no one bothered telling the faculty about this, and most of the faculty do not have SAM. I'd like to see you try to tell over 800 faculty members that they now have to go through all 50 of their disks to remove the virus from all of them... -Michael -- Michael Niehaus UUCP: !{iuvax,pur-ee}!bsu-cs!mithomas Apple Student Rep ARPA: mithomas@bsu-cs.bsu.edu Ball State University AppleLink: ST0374 (from UUCP: st0374@applelink.apple.com)