Date sent: Sun, 13 Jan 2008 12:14:29 +0000 From: David Harley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > I was talking to another one of my friends and he recalls it as well. > > He remembers it having to do with the cd's being found on a > > tanker off the coast of the UK or Asia. > > I don't remember this either. But if there's anyone who is likely to, it's > young Mr. Slade. :) I've been thinking about it. It certainly rings true (at least the virus on the CD part, and, of course, at one time AOL was the most prolific manufacturer of coasters and shiny disk curtain material). Tankers I don't recall anything about. I do think there was one specific case where AOL sent out a load of infected CDs, but I can't recall any details at all, so I hadn't posted anything. Infected commercial software or disks aren't new. Microsoft did a land-office business in virus infected CDs at one time: for a period, every single marketing CD they sent out seemed to have at least one infected Word doc on it. The first was the Macmag virus on Freehand demo disks. During the runup to March of 1992 I seem to recall at least 15 companies sending out disks infected with Michelangelo, but that was before CDs were big. Nowadays it isn't news at all, with infected disks, CDs, and even products being so common ... ====================== (quote inserted randomly by Pegasus Mailer) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. - G.M. Trevelyan http://victoria.tc.ca/techrev/rms.htm _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
