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echo: virus_info
to: DON HANN
from: KURT WISMER
date: 1997-06-06 14:45:00
subject: Virus checker

 -=> Mocking Don Hann to Kurt Wismer <=-
   
 > two likely possibilities are 1) you're using an incredibly poor virus
 > checker or 2) your virus checker identified the virus generically and
 > you mistook the generic type declaration of "stealth virus" as being 
 > the
 > proper name of a specific virus...
 DH> The virus scan programs were:  McAfee, Norton, IBM and another
 DH> that I don't remember the name of.  Not exactly "poor" virus
 DH> checkers... 
ah, i see... well that's another kettle of fish entirely then... it's
not particularly easy to tell when someone is incorrectly reporting the
name that a virus scanner is giving them... mcafee and ibmav report
absolutely no virus as simply "stealth"... stealth.boot.c perhaps, but
not just "stealth"...
... using VCL is programming vicariously through others...**
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