Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!polyslo!vlsi3b15!vax1.cc.lehigh.edu!sei.cmu.edu!krvw From: TMPLee@DOCKMASTER.ARPA Newsgroups: comp.virus Subject: Viruses in Commercial Software Message-ID: <0008.8909281133.AA14331@ge.sei.cmu.edu> Date: 27 Sep 89 15:53:00 GMT Sender: Virus Discussion ListLines: 14 Approved: krvw@sei.cmu.edu 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.)