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Lucozade
Issue 58 - December 16, 1999
 
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Viral Inflection

Dear Future Gamer,
A long time ago I was reading a bit about people worried about getting viruses. Well I remember a certain magazine, which had a virus on its demo disc. Now I know they are not in the business of stuff like that, but it shows how easily it can happen. I'm sure you'll never have a virus on your email, cause it's basically a Web-page put in a saved file, but it can still happen really. But the funny thing was, I never knew I had the virus till my PC froze for 10 seconds every 30 mins and after I ran a different virus scan to the one I already had on my PC...so who knows maybe you are sending out viruses to us and we don't even know?

Marc Sach


FG: I'll hand this over to someone who knows a whole lot more about this kind of stuff than I do:

We check every issue for all known viruses before we send it out. There is always the slight possibility that a impossible to guard against, but we do make every effort to safeguard our readers' machines. virus has evolved since our last update, but we do always use the latest available virus definitions. This is
Seb Duggan
Technical Editor
Future Online


So there you go.

Got an opinion or a question? Write to me at andy.smith@futurenet.co.uk...

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