Re: Virus-IBMs crashing all around me...

[spec@vax2.concordia.ca (Mitchell Spector)]

In article shack@deimos.frii.com (Randy Shackelford) writes...

>In article <5jr4fl$sl5@lynx.unm.edu>,
>stephen e buggie <buggie@musca.unm.edu> wrote:
> 
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>>We Apple II users enjoy virus-free computing.   I've gotten software from 
>>all imaginable sources (flea markets, yard sales, the net, etc.) and have 
>>never yet seen a virus.
> 
>I got hold of a SYS program that was infected with the festering hate
>virus once.

    The only virus I ever encountered was when ZZCopy reported finding
the "Starfighter II" virus on one of my 800K disks. Not sure if it was
a glitch or it was really there, but I got rid of it making a copy of
the disk onto itself (ZZCopy copies everything but the virus). Viruses
are practically non-existent on the Apple II (sure there were a few,
but they were taken out of circulation years ago, and even then it was
not common getting one).

Mitchell Spector
spec@vax2.concordia.ca