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From: fsg@holos0.UUCP (Frank Glass)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Anyone infected by "Brain" virus?
Message-ID: <1380@holos0.UUCP>
Date: 23 Sep 88 12:45:21 GMT
References: <10111@eddie.MIT.EDU>
Organization: Holos Software, Atlanta, GA
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In article <10111@eddie.MIT.EDU>, zermelo@eddie.MIT.EDU (L Richard Duffy)
writes:
> 
> a Pakistani company ...has apparently planted some viruses in pirated
> software which has wide circulation, ...
> 
> [a] friend asked me for advice; he and his colleagues have enormous
> amounts of pirated stuff which they use with their extensive databases,
> etc.  Obviously he's afraid ...
> 
	Fascinating.  A _computer_ virus which selects users of pirated software.
A vigilante virus!  As desirable as this may seem (1/2 smile), it's probably
a hoax.

> Please e-mail...

	_True_ information (as opposed to rumors) on issues such as viruses
SHOULD be posted to the net, provided that such postings do not become
redundant.
-- 
Frank Glass
Holos Software, Inc.
Voice: (404) 496-1358
UUCP: ...!gatech!holos0!fsg