Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!drls21.mit.EDU!cacroft From: cacroft@drls21.mit.EDU (C. A. Croft[Cheryl]) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Contributed software Message-ID: <8809272206.AA10295@drls21.sun.com> Date: 27 Sep 88 22:06:07 GMT Sender: daemon@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 25 Can someone help me with the following issue? One of the managers at my lab recently discovered PC viruses. As a result, we now have somewhat stricter guidelines about acquiring any software. Alas, someone noticed that my ftp'ing of contributed software from expo fit into the forbidden software acquisition category. Of course, I would hate to give up access to the contributed software, so here are my questions: 1) Is there some obvious reason why particularly nasty behaviour could not possibly be exported/imported via source code (other than the fact that the perpetrator of same would be lynched by this newsgroup)? 2) Can I assure my management that the contributed software on the official release tapes is virus-free? 3) Failing the first two options, are there certain keywords (or something) that one could search for in contributed code which would indicate ill intentions somewhat faster than studying each line of code? My apologies if all of this has been discussed before or belongs in another newsgroup (if so, perhaps someone could direct me to it). Cheryl Croft ...!convex!drlc1!cacroft