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".