[comp.sys.atari.st] PUBPAINT

woodside@ttidca.TTI.COM (George Woodside) (03/23/90)

Recently, David Beckemeyer mentioned the German paint program from the GEnie
libraries (PUBPAINT.ARC) as a possible virus source. David provided me with
more information on why he suspected the program. I downloaded it, and
check it quite thoroughly. It does not contain, or generate, any virus.

David's suspicions were due to a function call the program made, which
was rather unusual. It did indeed do what he thought, but not for the
purpose of generating a virus. The program does do quite a few wierd
sound effects, and handle a few functions in some rather unusual ways,
but none of them are harmful.

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