[WinMac] Remote Explorer virus hoax


Dan Schwartz(expresso[at]snip.net)
Mon, 25 Jan 1999 13:50:00 -0500


        Well, even the best of us get caught by hype. I, plus a lot of other MIS
professionals, were worried about a month ago with the Remote Explorer
virus that spread around MCI. What caught my attention was that this was a
cross-platform NT virus, i.e. it would execute on both AlphaNT as well as
NT/x86. Click on the link below to read more about this semi-hoax:
 <http://www.zdnet.com/windows/stories/main/0,4728,2186434,00.html>.

        Cheers!
        Dan

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