Australia’s Department of Administrative Services thought it a great idea to get people tendering for contracts to return an MS-DOS floppy disk with their responses to a screen-based question-and-answer tender document, but now it’s not so sure because it received an unwelcome parasite with one of the disks that came back, reports Newsbytes: the thing had a virus on-board, but the folks in Canberra were canny enough to screen all the disks with Microsoft-supplied virus-scanning utilities, and these found the virus before the disk got near the network; an investigation concluded that the tenderer was unaware that his system was contaminated – yeah, well, it’s not much of a tale, but it’s better than any of the plots in Neighbours i’nn’it.
