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Article #28769Re: Playboy virus - BEWARE!
From: Jim Cathey
Date: Wed, 01 Jun 1988 18:28
Date: Wed, 01 Jun 1988 18:28
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In article <258@uvabick.UUCP> thomas@uvabick.UUCP (Thomas Fruin) writes: >Through a dealer I heard that a new Macintosh virus had been sighted >here in the Netherlands, in Utrecht to be precise. It was called >Playboy or something similar, and after double clicking rapidly >started showing you pictures of benevolent nude girls, while it was >malevolently busy erasing your hard disk ... A point of terminology... from the description this sounds like a 'trojan horse' rather than a virus. A virus is a program that modifies other programs to spread itself. A trojan horse just suckers you into running it (by implying that it's useful/nifty) whereupon it trashes you. Just trying to be nit-picky, er, ...accurate. +----------------+ ! II CCCCCC ! Jim Cathey ! II SSSSCC ! ISC Systems Corp. ! II CC ! TAF-C8; Spokane, WA 99220 ! IISSSS CC ! UUCP: uunet!iscuva!jimc ! II CCCCCC ! (509) 927-5757 +----------------+ "With excitement like this, who is needing enemas?"
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!iscuva!jimc From: jimc@iscuva.ISCS.COM (Jim Cathey) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Playboy virus - BEWARE! Message-ID: <1580@iscuva.ISCS.COM> Date: 1 Jun 88 18:28:19 GMT References: <258@uvabick.UUCP> Organization: ISC Systems Corporation, Spokane, WA Lines: 22