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12 Aug 2024 11:20:39 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Virus FREE!  
From: Rudy Velthuis
Date: 25 Feb 1999 16:49:02
Message: <36d5c54e.0@news.povray.org>
Scott Manley schrieb in Nachricht <36D55734.A2F25DD6@star.arm.ac.uk>...
>Phil Clute wrote:
>>
>> Please accept my sincere appology to everyone for having spread
>> a virus to this news group. I hope that noone is now infected because
>> of it. I would like to thank Spider for sending me the information to
>> get rid of the Happy99.exe trojan . Without that help I would still be
>> spreading
>> computer disease!
>
>You know there's a theoretical possiblity to create a povray based virus

[snip!]

>just a warning of a theoretical possibility....

You are right! Now how do we tell the virus scanner industry they should
also scan .pov files? Of course this is the same with batch files, basic
files, installation scripts, etc. etc.

--
Rudy Velthuis


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