Strange things in the System Folder

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From: Mike McCann
Date: Thu, 08 Dec 1988 21:22

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Yet another of my postings (thanks to all for the help on INIT17):

A gentleman from the Education department here asked me about a
virus-like problem recently.  He noticed that his system folder
contained extra folders called Bomb (1-40), System Bomb (1-44) and
copies of them.  He immediately checked his hard drive with Virus Rx,
Interferon and KillScores but found no viruses.  He checked with MacTools
and found no hidden files (just the folders).  The strange thing is that
copies of some of the folders are created before their originals
(weird).  All 150+ folders were created in less than 1 hour and noone
was seen on the machine for that long (less than 15 minutes).  Is this
something besides a user Duplicating folders?

Thanks for the help in advance,

-- 
Mike McCann                        Internet = mmccann@hubcap.clemson.edu 
Poole Computer Center (Box P-11)       UUCP = gatech!hubcap!mmccann
Clemson University                   Bitnet = mmccann@clemson.bitnet
Clemson, S.C. 29634

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From: mmccann@hubcap.UUCP (Mike McCann)
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Subject: Strange things in the System Folder
Keywords: Folders, Time-Warp?
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Date: 8 Dec 88 21:22:18 GMT
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