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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 4 Mar 1995.
Re: figlet.exe Virus

Re: figlet.exe Virus

Huddleston Lee Eldridge (fe4...@jove.acs.unt.edu) wrote:
: 1sp...@uvsc.edu (JEREMY H. SPROAT) writes:
: 
: >In article <5gf...@tonne.mayn.sub.de> cju...@tonne.mayn.sub.de (Chan-jo Jun) writes:
: >>>
: >>>  #    #    ##    #####   #    #     #    #    #   ####
: >>>  #    #   #  #   #    #  ##   #     #    ##   #  #    #
: >>>  #    #  #    #  #    #  # #  #     #    # #  #  #
: >>>  # ## #  ######  #####   #  # #     #    #  # #  #  ###
: >>>  ##  ##  #    #  #   #   #   ##     #    #   ##  #    #
: >>>  #    #  #    #  #    #  #    #     #    #    #   ####
: 
: >>> ***   FIGLET.EXE IS INFECTED WITH A COMPUTER VIRUS                 ***
: 
: >>Unfortunately it took me a little longer to find that out. My system had  
: >>to crash a few times before I thought about searching for viruses. The  
: >>damage was low - but does anyone know what this virus does except for  
: >>halting my computer?
: 
: >>McAfee's Virus-Scanner recognized the Whisper-Tai-Pan-Virus and was able  
: >>to successfully remove it. The Scanner that came with MS-DOS 6.2 is NOT  
: >>able to disable the virus.


The following people have stated that their copy of FIGLET.EXE has 
the TAIPAN virus:

cju...@tonne.mayn.sub.de (Chan-jo Jun)

fe4...@jove.acs.unt.edu (Huddleston Lee Eldridge)


Will these two people please, please, state exactly where they 
downloaded their copies of FIGLET.EXE from.

Figlet.exe 2.1 was posted recently in comp.binaries.ibm.pc and 
would have been checked for viruses. 

If the CBIP copy of Figlet is contaminated then the CBIP moderator 
must be alerted.  


Bye,

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