Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!ginosko!aplcen!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!polyslo!vlsi3b15!vax1.cc.lehigh.edu!sei.cmu.edu!krvw From: bnr-di!borynec@watmath.waterloo.edu (James Borynec) Newsgroups: comp.virus Subject: Re: Software company distributing viruses (PC) Message-ID: <0007.8909251241.AA29279@ge.sei.cmu.edu> Date: 22 Sep 89 12:57:23 GMT Sender: Virus Discussion ListLines: 21 Approved: krvw@sei.cmu.edu In article <0006.8909211142.AA16502@ge.sei.cmu.edu>, frisk@rhi.hi.is (Fridrik S kulason) writes: > "We can't have a virus - there are no pirated games here" > I guess this will happen elsewhere, but until now there have been very > few occurrences of software companies distributing viruses (only 4 > that I know of). Software companies may be the largest source of virus contamination around. After all, they send disks everywhere and no one worries about 'shrink wrap' software being 'unclean'. I have only been hit by two viruses - both came from software companies - one of which was Texas Instruments. The guy in the office next door was hit by a copy of a virus on his (shrink wrap) copy of WordPerfect. I think it is shocking that people are told just to watch out for viruses when engaged in software 'swapping'. Everyone should regard EVERY disk that enters their machine with suspicion. J.b. - -- UUCP : utzoo!bnr-vpa!bnr-di!borynec James Borynec, Bell Northern Research Bitnet: borynec@bnr.CA Box 3511, Stn C, Ottawa, Ontario K1Y 4H7