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From: ttidca.TTI.COM!hollombe%sdcsvax@ucsd.edu (The Polymath)
Newsgroups: comp.virus
Subject: Re: October 12/13 (PC)
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Date: 20 Sep 89 19:29:03 GMT
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In article <0003.8909191146.AA07427@ge.sei.cmu.edu> ACS1W@uhvax1.uh.edu (Meesh)
 writes:
}I'm the editor of our university's computing newletter.  I need to
}know how users can detect the October 12/13 virus ahead of time.  Is
}there a way at all?  ...

How about backing up the hard disk, then setting the system date ahead to
October 13 and re-booting?

[Ed. Sounds (to me) kind of like testing to see if the mines in an
inert minefield are "ert" by having someone walk through it. :-)]

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