On Wed, 14 Sep 1994 14:54 EDT Vickie.Banks <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > I just received another posting, warning rather frantically of > the extreme danger of getting the CD-IT virus off the Internet. > It supposedly comes attached to a fake piece of software that > claims to make a regular CD drive read/write, and then it does > serious damage to one's PC. We've received MANY varied copies > of this posting over the past few months. This one says > USA Today just published an article about the great danger > of this virus. So far I've never heard of anyone who caught > it though. I just checked comp.viruses. Not a single mention. > Anyone know if this is a new outbreak I should again forward > a message to warn our readers about, or if it's an old > net-hoax or extremely minor problem that just happened to resurface? It's a "real" virus, and the author of the F-PROT virus-detection software for MS DOS has indicated that his software has detected this virus for over *FOUR* years, so it's quite "old" and "well-known".