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TidBITS#132/06-Jul-92

Malevolence continues with a new virus, T4, and a Trojan Horse whose author’s head now carries a price. Luckily, all is not lost, with CE and Microsoft releasing good things, updates to Alarming Events and QuicKeys from CE and a free patch for that nasty styles bug from Microsoft. Rounding out this issue, we have the eagerly-awaited second part of Howard Hansen’s Excel review, which will conclude next week.

Adam Engst No comments

Administrivia

We're back from vacation, which we enjoyed on the whole, but we could have done without the unplanned seven hour bus ride from New York City to Ithaca on a transit-style bus that could barely do 45 miles per hour on the freeway

Mark H. Anbinder No comments

Disinfectant 2.9 Released

John Norstad of Northwestern University this weekend released version 2.9 of his free anti-virus utility, Disinfectant. Version 2.9 detects the T4 virus, two strains of which were discovered in several locations around the world late last month. The T4 virus can interfere with the booting process, either causing crashes during startup or preventing system extensions from loading properly

Neil Shapiro No comments

Trojan Horse Reward

REWARD OFFERED FOR INFORMATION LEADING TO ARREST AND CONVICTION OF TROJAN HORSE AUTHOR The MAUG Staff on CompuServe discovered an upload called CHINAT.CPT which, when we routinely examined the file, revealed itself to be a Trojan Horse program

Mark H. Anbinder No comments

CE Ships AE & QK2 Updates

CE Software is now shipping new versions of Alarming Events, a personal scheduling software, and QuicKeys, a macro making program. In addition CE has reduced the suggested retail price of Alarming Events to $99.95. Alarming Events 1.1 -- Alarming Events 1.1 is primarily a compatibility upgrade, making it 32-bit clean and Quadra '040 cache compatible, but it does have some welcome new features

Adam Engst No comments

Word 5.0a Patch

Microsoft has fixed the font/styles bug that caused styles to revert to the Normal font when files were transferred between machines (see TidBITS-126)

Mark H. Anbinder No comments

A New Direction for IE

Information Electronics, the Hammondsport, NY developer best known until now for its QuickMail add-on products, announced last week that they will no longer offer their QuickMail gateways and enhancements

Howard Hansen No comments

Excel 4.0 for the Mac II

In this second installment of my review of Excel 4.0, I promised to tell you about some of the less glitzy features of the new version. I don't mean to say that you should stop reading lest you get bored