-=> On 03-04-98 00:56, Rob Dennis said to Ivy Iverson,<=-
-=>"About Testing......,"<=-
Hi, Rob;
RD>>> I just got this mess cleaned up from a viral infuction picked up from
RD>>> a demo version of some software off a CDROM. Lesson learned. Next
...
RD> It was a demo of a 3d space flight sim a friend got from a local
RD> company. It was garbage as the exe files were all infected and so
RD> infected my system.
RD> So far as we have been able to figure it is the system the game was
RD> written on that had the critter in it to start with or the system used
RD> to burn the CDROM. Rather suspect the burner system as the discs were
RD> home-made,not professional silver colored mastered.
Ah! A basement production facility. I wouldn't trust one of those
outfits as far aas I could throw the house! Are you sure that it wasn't
a trojen, (what APPEARS to be a useful program which is actually just
designed to infect other people's computers)?
RD> Rather stupid of someone NOT to scan a system they were writing
RD> software on or burning CDROMs from.
RD> They have since stopped giving the demos away.
GOOD!
RD> Smart move on their part as it could have cost them a bit in terms of
RD> bad rep for software.
Not to mention possible lawsuits! (That's a FEDERAL crime!)
RD> I now load any suspect stuff into a backup system so it can be
RD> checked before I let it near this one I'm on now.
RD> Once restoring this mess was enough. (5 gigs worth of stuff! )
WOW! Hopefully none of your backups got infected!
73 DE KB9QPM
Ivy
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