Reputed virus in sustainable publishing

[Don McAllister]

>  
> Hi coral-listers, 
> I have installed a copy of this diskette on my computer.  There has been 
> no catastrophic failure.  My virus checking program (not up to date 
> admittedly) has not found any viruses when I power up.  I did however 
> develop a general protection fault in the e-mail part of my Internet in 
> a Box subsequently, but that point problem is not the general symptom I 
> hear you get from most viruses. 
>  
> So I suspect Justin is right. 
>  
> don mcallister 
>  
> Dustin L. Laurence wrote: 
> > 
> > >This message is to alert everybody. 
> > > 
> > >There is a virus in the e-book "toward sustainable publishing" so if you 
> > >get it trow it away!!!!! 
> > 
> > No offense to the original sender, but it doesn't help anyone to 
> > spread these sorts of rumors.  *Very* few reported viruses are 
> > viruses, so on the face of it there isn't much reason to worry. 
> > 
> > Second, this report comes with NO indication of what the symptoms 
> > are, which makes it even more likely to be an (unwitting, I'm sure) 
> > hoax.  People who know what they're about tend to back up their 
> > statements, hoaxes characteristically come with either no info or 
> > patently bogus info. 
> > 
> > Again, I mean no offense to the original sender, but without better 
> > info the overwhelming likelihood is that this is yet another of the 
> > many, many virus hoaxes that propagate around the net like wildfire. 
> > I hate to see these things get started or propagated without at 
> > least some credible reasons given. 
> > 
> > If anyone is very worried about this and doesn't have any local help, 
> > I guess I am willing to check at least a couple of disks mailed to 
> > me to to resolve any doubt, or tell someone else how to do it.  I 
> > don't really have time for it, but better that than have people 
> > acting on an unverified rumor. 
> > 
> > Dustin 
>  
> -- 
> Don E. McAllister             /& Canadian Centre for Biodiversity 
> Ocean Voice International          /Canadian Museum of Nature 
> Box 37026, 3332 McCarthy Rd. /Box 3443, Station D 
> Ottawa, ON K1V 0W0, Canada    /Ottawa, ON K1P 6P4 
> URL: http://www.ovi.ca  E-mail: mcall at superaje.com 
>  (or: ah194 at freenet.carleton.ca) Tel: (613) 264-8986, Fax: (613) 
> 264-9204 

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Don E. McAllister             /& Canadian Centre for Biodiversity 
Ocean Voice International          /Canadian Museum of Nature 
Box 37026, 3332 McCarthy Rd. /Box 3443, Station D 
Ottawa, ON K1V 0W0, Canada    /Ottawa, ON K1P 6P4 
URL: http://www.ovi.ca  E-mail: mcall at superaje.com   
 (or: ah194 at freenet.carleton.ca) Tel: (613) 264-8986, Fax: (613)  
264-9204