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From: bjc@pollux.UUCP (Betty J. Clay)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: The ultimate fix!!!
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Date: 22 Sep 88 09:39:04 GMT
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In article  limonce@pilot.njin.net (Tom Limoncelli) writes:
>
>IMHO, the best thing would be education.  We have to teach people that
>virii writing is not funny.
>

There was a trial in Fort Worth this week in which a man was accused of 
There was a trial in Fort Worth this week in which a man was accused of
planting a virus in the computer of his employer (just before he was fired).
He was found guilty, under a new law passed by the last Texas legislature.
Sentencing has been delayed until October, but can include a jail sentence
as well as a rather hefty fine.  How is THAT for educating people about
writing virii?









>Tom
>-- 

Betty Clay
..........killer!pollux!bjc