Re: Possible virus on Oracle Office Demo Disk

From: Gary Eckhardt <eckhardg_at_radon.brooks.af.mil>
Date: 15 Oct 1993 15:31:06 GMT
Message-ID: <29mfnq$2ld_at_bsdns.brooks.af.mil>


In article 117137_at_hydra.gatech.EDU, iasysdl_at_prism.gatech.EDU (Daniel Looby) writes:
> I attended IOUW in Orlando in September. One of the things I brought back with
> me was an Oracle Office Demo disk. Last night at a local user group meeting
> somebody stated that the disk contained a virus. The virus is suppose to mess
> up files on your hard disk. Can anyone (especially Oracle) confirm or deny
> this?

I virus scanned both Office Demo disks that I received at the conference, and came up negative. The disks that I scanned were for DOS, and I used Microsoft Anti-Virus and McAfee SCAN.

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