Posted by Bill Young on March 30, 1999 at 17:01:36:
This happened many years ago (c.1991?) when my computer
club met at the largest local computer reseller's
"education department" (place where they had a bunch of
386's they trained people on). One of our senior
members copied a bunch of disks on one of the machines.
Back at work and before I tried to run it, I had the
presence of mind to virus check it. It hit! His wife
pulled him out of an important meeting to let him know.
The next day he and some other large, threatening
individuals discussed the matter with the retailer and
after going through several of their machines, the
virus was found on several.
The moral of this story is that you should not take for
granted even the most reputable of sources. Be like we
were back in the sixties and don't trust and medium
over 30k.