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Newsgroups: alt.games.doom
Path: oz.cdrom.com!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!swiss.ans.net!newsgate.watson.ibm.com!hawnews.watson.ibm.com!news
From: dlundh@vnet.ibm.com
Subject: Re: DOOM II CONTAINS VIRUS
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Date: Tue, 6 Sep 1994 08:57:49 GMT
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In <34fupk$qe4@sugar.NeoSoft.COM>, otaku@sugar.NeoSoft.COM (Sam Harrison) writes:
>ATTENTION!!!! It seems that the people at ID have intentionally "leaked" Doom
>II in an attempt to teach pirates a lesson. Some people on IRC have claimed
>that after beating the copy of DOOM II that is illegaly floating around, a
>digitized screen of John Romero and some of the other Doom authors frowning
>and pointing at the camera comes up on the screen, followed by a message that
>states "You pirates have screwed us over ever since we released Wolfenstein..
>Now its our turn to do the screwing." - AND THEN IT WIPES YOUR HARD DRIVE CLEAN,
>AND RESETS YOUR CMOS!
Well, that does it. I'm not buying Doom II. What if there is a bug in it that triggers it
even after you got it from your favorite software store?
I'll rather GIVE money to folks who are decent enough to not program such
rubbish as virii.
Daniel Lundh
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*NOT an IBM spokesman*TeamOS/2*Det finns en smurf i oss alla*
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