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by **Tony Joh** » Sat, 24 Feb 1996 04:00:00

All --

It turns out that this rumored virus on the IWCCCARS Project site is a
complete hoax. Without going into a very long story, suffice to say
that this whole thing is the product of someone's mind and not based
in any reality.

If any of you are in doubt about this, consider that there has been,
to date, only one "virus" report out of downloads numbering in the
hundreds of thousands since IWCCCARS went public.

For your continued *** safety, we have instituted DAILY virus
checks using the most recent copies of both the Thunderbyte and
McAfee's virus scanners and have not found a single thing to date
except a clean bill of health.

Thanks!
_________________________________________
Tony Johns
IWCCCARS Project Coordinator
http://www.racesimcentral.net/~iwcc/project.htm

by **Johnson Randall** » Sat, 24 Feb 1996 04:00:00

>All --
>It turns out that this rumored virus on the IWCCCARS Project site is a
>complete hoax. Without going into a very long story, suffice to say
>that this whole thing is the product of someone's mind and not based
>in any reality.
>If any of you are in doubt about this, consider that there has been,
>to date, only one "virus" report out of downloads numbering in the
>hundreds of thousands since IWCCCARS went public.
>For your continued *** safety, we have instituted DAILY virus
>checks using the most recent copies of both the Thunderbyte and
>McAfee's virus scanners and have not found a single thing to date
>except a clean bill of health.
>Thanks!
>_________________________________________
>Tony Johns
>IWCCCARS Project Coordinator
>http://www.racesimcentral.net/~iwcc/project.htm

Actually, I did find a virus on disks that I had downloaded files from
IWCCCARS on. However, since you do checks daily, I will assume that they
didn't come from this site. I just wanted to let everyone know that
there was a possibility that they came from this location. I will look
into other possible contamination sites.

Sorry about the confusion,

Randy Johnson

by **Earl** » Sun, 25 Feb 1996 04:00:00

says...

>>All --

>>It turns out that this rumored virus on the IWCCCARS Project site is a
>>complete hoax. Without going into a very long story, suffice to say
>>that this whole thing is the product of someone's mind and not based
>>in any reality.

>>If any of you are in doubt about this, consider that there has been,
>>to date, only one "virus" report out of downloads numbering in the
>>hundreds of thousands since IWCCCARS went public.

>>For your continued *** safety, we have instituted DAILY virus
>>checks using the most recent copies of both the Thunderbyte and
>>McAfee's virus scanners and have not found a single thing to date
>>except a clean bill of health.

>>Thanks!
>>_________________________________________
>>Tony Johns
>>IWCCCARS Project Coordinator
>>http://www.racesimcentral.net/~iwcc/project.htm

>Actually, I did find a virus on disks that I had downloaded files from
>IWCCCARS on. However, since you do checks daily, I will assume that
they
>didn't come from this site. I just wanted to let everyone know that
>there was a possibility that they came from this location. I will look
>into other possible contamination sites.

Randy, in case you had the wrong impression, I don't think Tony was
fingering you as someone who started the hoax. He was referring to a
disgruntled ex-IWCCCARS contributor who had posted a hoax message to
Compuserve. I do not know if this when this occured relative to your
virus alert post.

Earl

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