Archived viruses, was Re: Reasonable price for a complete SOL-20 system?

[Liam Proven]

On 23 October 2016 at 18:03, Electronics Plus <sales at elecplus.com> wrote:
> I used to have factory original CD install disks from Zip drives, but I threw them all out, because they were all infected with viruses. Iomega was kind enough to send me clean install disks, after I mailed them back one of the infected disks. That prompted a huge recall, back in the 90s.

Wow! I never heard about that one!

I did hear of other such instances, though. And more recently,
at-the-factory-infected USB sticks and digital picture frames.

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