JAMESRC%QUCDN.BITNET@oac.ucla.edu (12/18/89)
AIDS researchers, especially those attending the Stockholm AIDS conference, may receive in the mail an unsolicited diskette from PC-CYBOURG, a company of Panamanian Registration. Although the technical information varies, it appears that the programme will, eventually, encrypt all files on your PC. You have to pay the Panamanian company for the "fix" to get your machine running again. Silent transmission, integration, eventual propogation and destruction, where have I heard this before, ... Do not run this programme. Please subscribe to VALERT-L for further information. Workers in the UK and Germany are working on breaking the encryption programme. I am keeping copies of all the mail I receive on the matter and will forward as requested, but I do not have a copy of this programme and am not working on the problem myself. Rob James Department of Community Health and Epidemiology Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada