Officials at Seattle’s Aldus Corp. are blaming...

Officials at Seattle’s Aldus Corp. are blaming the publisher of a Canadian computer magazine for a rogue computer program “virus” that has popped up in commercial software, apparently for the first time. Richard Brandow, publisher of MacMag in Montreal, acknowledged that he wrote the so-called “March 2 peace message,” but said he did so to point out the dangers of software piracy. The relatively benign virus was discovered in FreeHand, a new program Aldus developed for Apple Macintosh computers. It apparently did not harm any computers and only flashed a brief message on the computer screen.