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Message no. 1
From: "Peter C. Mitton Jr." <mittop@***.EDU>
Subject: archive and virus
Date: Thu, 3 Feb 1994 15:01:50 -0500
>A person on my floor got some information concerning the FTP archives. He
>said a virus found its way into the archives and wiped everything out. Is
>this true?

The archives were contaminated and any viable backups were to old. I found
this information in a computer class at this Univ. so I don't know how
accurate it is. I think If you check the archive there is a notice in a readme
file.

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