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In message <330e2072...@news.cc.columbia.edu> - sb...@columbia.edu
(Zinzan) writes:
>
>In MS's defence (perish the thought!) bugs in an OS are far more
>likely to show up than in a game - and are likely to be more
>"serious". I hadn't heard about the virus on MS distributions but
>that's certainly inexcusable.

	With Win95, at release time (any you never hear about it any longer...) there
was an issue with the diskette version.  Specifically, MS informed the world
that there was a virus out there that lurked on your PC, didn't do anything at
all, ever, was never noticed, until disk _2_ of the Win95 set was inserted in
your drive, and then the virus smiled all over the disk, leaving it blank. 
Once it erradicated disk 2, users promptly returned the package to their
reseller.  Reseller trades in.  User loses disk #2 again.  Repeat a few time
until someone clues in and calls MS.  MS says "check for virii".  User checks
for virii, removes virus.  Gets new disk set from MS.  Problem never happens
again.
	Don't get me wrong; I'm not saying it WAS a virus on disk #2, but the
situation was odd enough to suggest that it was a normal (ie.
non-Win95-disk2-eating-specific) virus, that happened to come on disk 2.
	The fact you never hear about it anymore could be due to the disk being
cleaned at manufacturing, or due to the number of new floppy installs being
near zero.  Who knows the truth.  Mulder & Scully should visit MS
headquarters.  <Grin>

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