ephraim@think.COM (Ephraim Vishniac) (03/02/89)
In article <5972@bsu-cs.UUCP> mithomas@bsu-cs.UUCP (Michael Thomas Niehaus) writes: >Does anyone (especially within the "priviledged" part of Apple) have a copy >of Virus Rx 1.4 that they could post to comp.binaries.mac? I read the >announcement on AppleLink yesterday that the new 1.4 is available. Sure enough, the announcement is there. It directs you to look in the Technical Info library for the "new" Virus Rx. What's there, however, is Virus Rx 1.4a2, the same one that's been available for a month and a half. The only difference that I could find is that it's not labelled as such in the library -- you have to download it to find out that it's the same old thing. Ephraim Vishniac / Internet: ephraim@think.com / AppleLink: ThinkingCorp Thinking Machines Corporation / 245 First Street / Cambridge, MA 02142-1214 "Arlo Guthrie, it seems, has found what he was looking for: God, and the Macintosh." (Boston Globe)
newsuser@LTH.Se (LTH network news server) (03/05/89)
In article <36906@think.UUCP> ephraim@think.com (Ephraim Vishniac) writes: >In article <5972@bsu-cs.UUCP> mithomas@bsu-cs.UUCP (Michael Thomas Niehaus) writes: >>Does anyone (especially within the "priviledged" part of Apple) have a copy >>of Virus Rx 1.4 that they could post to comp.binaries.mac? I read the >>announcement on AppleLink yesterday that the new 1.4 is available. > >Sure enough, the announcement is there. It directs you to look in the >Technical Info library for the "new" Virus Rx. What's there, however, >is Virus Rx 1.4a2, the same one that's been available for a month and >a half. The only difference that I could find is that it's not >labelled as such in the library -- you have to download it to find out >that it's the same old thing. That's correct. I checked AppleLink yesterday, and found Virus Rx on three places. One was labelled 1.4a1, one 1.4a2 and the last one (in the Technical Info Library) was just called 'Untitled' (what a user friendly name :-)). Please Apple, always include version numbers on applications. I wonder how many people downloaded the 'Untitled' Virus Rx just to see that it was the old version. The Press Release, dated Feb 22, said "Distribution: Virus Rx version 1.4 is currently available on many major bulletin boards, and in the Technical Info library on AppleLink." >Ephraim Vishniac / Internet: ephraim@think.com / AppleLink: ThinkingCorp >Thinking Machines Corporation / 245 First Street / Cambridge, MA 02142-1214 -- Roland Mansson, Lund University Computing Center, Box 783, S220 07 Lund, Sweden Phone: +46-46107436 Fax: +46-46138225 Bitnet: roland_m@seldc52 Internet: roland_m@ldc.lu.se or roland_m%ldc.lu.se@uunet.uu.net UUCP: {uunet,mcvax}!enea!ldc.lu.se!roland_m AppleLink: SW0022