CompuServe Thread

I thought people with "infected" Amigas might be interested in this message that got passed on to me today. I guess we're not the only people blessed with viruses! ====== Article 14266 of comp.sys.amiga: Path: myrias!alberta!mnetor!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!lll-tis!ames!ll-xn oberon!pollux.usc.edu!papa From: papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Guidelines for virus authors Message-ID: <7175@oberon.USC.EDU> Date: 23 Feb 88 22:25:17 GMT Sender: news@oberon.USC.EDU Reply-To: papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa) Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA Lines: 18 References: And you thought the Mac was safe? Macintosh Today has 1/4 of a page of the latest issue devoted to the "Peace virus that can be avoided by resetting the system clock". This is a short quote: "This virus will appear on many macintosh computer screens worldwide March 2. The virus originated at Montreal-based MacMag, whose publisher Richard Brandow, said the program was an idealistic effort to honor the birth of the Macintosh II computer. The virus was disseminated via Compuserve and other dial-up bulletin board systems buried in various files and unwittingly downloaded by subscribers. But the virus can damage some programs. At least one program, Apache Strike by Silicon Beach Software, will no work when the peace message is in the same computers system. Mac owners that don't care to receive the message, should advance their system clock to March 3, the day after the program appaerance date." — Marco