RD>> to burn the CDROM. Rather suspect the burner system as the discs were
 RD>> home-made,not professional  silver colored mastered.
 II> Ah!  A basement production facility.  I wouldn't trust one of those
 II> outfits as far aas I could throw the house!  Are you sure that it wasn't
 II> a trojen, (what APPEARS to be a useful program which is actually just
 II> designed to infect other people's computers)?
 No it was something else in the exe files.
 But for now I'll let it drop as the guy who was giving it away has lost his 
job over the whole issue.
 Justice done for me.
 RD>> Smart move on their part as it could have cost them a bit in terms of
 RD>> bad rep for software.
 II> Not to mention possible lawsuits!  (That's a FEDERAL crime!)
 Dpeneding on who's laws were violated I guess.
 Canadian laws concerning virus's and Us laws are slightly different.
 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! )
 II> WOW!  Hopefully none of your backups got infected!
 Nope. None were infected Ivy.
 I was lucky to have done the backup before I got the my visitor.
 Now that I have more blank ZIPs to do it I backup the entire system very 
week on to ZIP disks over the network to another system that runs a virus 
checker on everything it touches.
 I was lucky to have moved most of my collection of amateur radio files onto 
my
laptop several months ago as I could have lost much more than I did.
 Lesson learned.
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