From: [e--o--s] at [delphi.com] (Eric Jones)
Newsgroups: alt.drugs,alt.cyberpunk
Subject: Clinton gets a Virus
Date: 30 Oct 1993 19:21:02 GMT

Reprinted from an Associated Press report on 10/30/93...

"Agency says health plan disks had virus"

WASHINGTON - Were the computer disks the White House handed out with the
1,342-page Clinton health plan infected by a virus that flashes a "legalize
marijuana" message?
    That rumor swept Washington on Friday after a business news service
reported that such a virus turned up on the computer disks it got from the
White House.
    However, it appears to be the only reported sickness among the 1,000
sets of two, 3.5-inch computer disks that the White House ordered from a
Virginia firm in the wee hours of Wednesday morning, shortly before Clinton
took a copy of his bill to Capitol Hill.
    Johannah Brookwell, president of Controlled Copy Support Systems Inc. in
Fairfax, Va., insisted the disks were clean when they left her shop.
    Jeff Eller, the White House director of media affairs, said the
Bloomburg News Service is the only organization that has found anything
wrong with the disks.
    Both the White House and the duplication company spot-checked for
viruses and found none, Eller said.
    He said he could not say with 100 percent certainty that all the disks
were virus free since they were not all checked before hand.

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My hat's off to whichever one of you out there is responsible... %-)

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