hodas@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Josh Hodas) (04/22/88)
An editorial in the April 19th MacWeek makes reference to viruses infecting Stuffit: "And now one of the standard code-compression programs used by the Macintosh on-lin community -- Raymond Lau's Stuffit -- reportedly is infected..." Anybody know any details? Which virus? What symptoms? What source? ------------------------- Josh Hodas (hodas@eniac.seas.upenn.edu) 4223 Pine Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 (215) 222-7112 (home) (215) 898-9515 (school office)
outer@csri.toronto.edu (Richard Outerbridge) (04/24/88)
All hearsay. Ray has heard that "some" copies of V1.20 were infected with a virus; he advises folks to get their copy of the latest and greatest only from reputable networks/BBS (or directly from him).
macman@ethz.UUCP (Danny Schwender) (04/25/88)
>An editorial in the April 19th MacWeek makes reference to viruses infecting >Stuffit: > > "And now one of the standard code-compression > programs used by the Macintosh on-lin community > -- Raymond Lau's Stuffit -- reportedly is infected..." > >Anybody know any details? Which virus? What symptoms? What source? As far as I know, this concerns a copy of Stuffit 1.20 on a BBS in Texas. As the larger BBSes (CompuServe, GEnie, etc) and the newsgroups like Usenet are the first to get the new versions, and this directly from Ray Lau, I think that people who have their version from these sources don't have to worry too much. -- Danny +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Mail : Danny Schwendener, ETH Macintosh Support Center | | Swiss Federal Institute of Technology | | ETH-Zentrum, CH-8092 Zuerich, Switzerland | | | | Bitnet : macman@czheth5a | | UUCP : {cernvax,mcvax}ethz!macman | | ETH BBS : danny | | Ean : macman@ifi.ethz.ch | | Voice : yodel three times | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+