[comp.virus] Washburn

frisk@rhi.hi.is (Fridrik Skulason) (05/10/91)

RADAI@HUJIVMS.BITNET (Y. Radai) writes:
>V2P1 (better known as the 1260) was distributed publicly, and while it
>is not itself destructive, someone evidently used its disassembly as
>the basis for the Casper virus, which is quite destructive.

The source to Casper is in circulation and it is obviously not based
on a disassembly, but rather the original source of V2P1, which
somebody must have obtained from Washburn.

- -frisk

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