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- From: rslade@cue.bc.ca (Robert Slade)
- Newsgroups: comp.virus
- Subject: Brandau virus followup - four years later (Mac)
- Message-ID: <0015.9208260151.AA01769@barnabas.cert.org>
- Date: 22 Aug 92 00:18:00 GMT
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- Canadian content time. This just passed to me from a news type off the
- AP "Wire" (I suspect he got it off Compuserve):
-
- Online Today
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- CANADIAN CHARGED WITH PLANTING ALDUS COMPUTER VIRUS
-
- (Aug. 20)
- Former Canadian computer magazine publisher Richard Brandow, 28,
- has been accused of planting a computer virus that tainted thousands
- of copies of Aldus Corp. software in 1988.
- According to The Associated Press, Brandow, who now writes for
- "Star Trek," has been charged by prosecutors in King County,
- Washington with malicious mischief and could face up to 10 years in
- on if he is convicted.
- Brandow said he finds the charges surprising. "What are they going
- to do?" he asked, "It happened four years ago, and I am here in
- Montreal."
- He told AP that he arranged for a message to flash briefly on
- computer screens that wished peace "to all Macintosh users around the
- s were designed to educate the public
- to the danger of viruses. Brandow included his name in the message so
- he could be contacted.
- The virus made its way eventually to Aldus where it infected a
- master disk for producing copies of Freehand, an illustration
- program. After the virus was discovered, Aldus recalled 5,000 copies
- of Freehand and replaced another 5,000 copies it had in its
- inventory. The incident cost the firm $7,000.
- Ivan Orton, King County senior deputy prosecuting attorney, told AP
- it was the first time the state has brought such criminal charges. He
- also said he believes the incident was the first time a virus had
- tainted commercial software.
- For more news from The Associated Press, consult the Executive News
- (GO APONLINE).
- --Cathryn Conroy
-
-
- I think they got his name wrong.
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