31 Dec
1998
31 Dec
'98
8:06 a.m.
The December 1998 issue of MAC Addict was shipped with CD that had a virus
on it. It happened while they were being copied from the master. It only
works on the PowerPC Mac's the older models can run it without a problem,
also according the Mac Addict the virus expires on Dec 24th of this year.
John
-----Original Message-----
From: CLASSICCMP-owner(a)u.washington.edu
[mailto:CLASSICCMP-owner@u.washington.edu]On Behalf Of SUPRDAVE(a)aol.com
Sent: Thursday, December 31, 1998 6:55 AM
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
Subject: Re: Virus Checking
In a message dated 12/31/98 0:33:13 AM EST, Pjoules1(a)cs.com writes:
<< Agreed, apart from home produced or piarate ones which you have already
pointed out are always suspect. IIRC there have been rare
ocasions where
floppies have been distributed with viruses in bulk, one was a batch of
preformatted ones where the master (or duplicating machine or
whatever) was
infected with aa boot sector vvirus, and I belive that there has been at
least
on occasion where a major software house accidentally
distributed some but
that was many years ago.
>
i think not long ago that a commercial
mac cd was shipped with a
virus. can
anyone elaborate?