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From: TMPLee@DOCKMASTER.ARPA
Newsgroups: comp.virus
Subject: Viruses in Commercial Software
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Date: 27 Sep 89 15:53:00 GMT
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In commenting on viruses being distributed (accidentally, of course)
through commercial software someone recently mentioned that someone
near him had been hit by a virus that was in a shrink-wrapped copy of
WordPerfect.  I'm skeptical -- WordPerfect is such a widely-sold
program that had there been one copy infected there would have been
thousands and the din would have been deafening.  Could someone who
follows this closely summarize exactly which commercial packages have
definitely been identified as having been shipped infected?  (i.e.,
the virus was found on them before there was any chance whatsoever
they could have been written to by the user's machine.)  (I'm not
doubting that commercial software is a good vector for distributing
viruses or that it has happened before, I just want to make sure that
a company with good anti-virus practices doesn't get falsely accused;
in the case in point I have no idea what WP Corp's practices are.)