yk4@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Yong Su Kim) (12/15/89)
I just got hit by the Lode Runner virus. Good thing I had photonix which killed the virus. Kinda makes you wonder who created the virus. _____________________________________________________________________________ |Internet: yk4@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu |||||||||||Yong Su Kim|||||||||||| |Bitnet : yk4@cunixc |||||The Korean from Hong Kong|||| |UUCP : uunet!rutgers!columbia!cunixc!yk4 |||||||...Apple IIGS user...|||||| |____________________________________________||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
trd10523@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (12/21/89)
/* Written 3:58 pm Dec 14, 1989 by yk4@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu in uxa.cso.uiuc.edu:comp.sys.apple */ I just got hit by the Lode Runner virus. Good thing I had photonix which killed the virus. Kinda makes you wonder who created the virus. /* End of text from uxa.cso.uiuc.edu:comp.sys.apple */ Two questions: 1) What Lode Runner virus? (excuse me if I've been living under a rock) 2) How much memory does Photonix need to run? I can't get it working on my ROM 03 1 meg GS /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// / Todd Davis INTERNET: trd10523@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu / / Computer Engineering Student COORDINATES: 40 06' 47" N / 88 13' 35 W / / University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign / ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
jerryk@pro-tcc.cts.com (Jerry E. Kindall) (12/22/89)
In-Reply-To: message from trd10523@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu The Lode Runner (sic) virus (really called LOAD Runner) is a harmless virus that only affects block zero on your disks. It originated in France and was reportedly written by a guy who calls himself CAPSLOCK. Jay Jennings (an A2 sysop on GEnie) has actually talked to this character via Minitel, the French online service, and reports that the virus does no damage to any files on your disks, it just eradicates the boot block when it "goes off". Evidently the guy wrote it just to see how far it would spread. Photonix doesn't run on a ROM 3 GS. It has nothing to do with how much RAM you have (you have enough); evidently the program (and Nucleus as well) calls some udocumented entry points in the ROM. By the way, speculating that the FTA folks created the virus just because both the FTA and this CAPSLOCK guy are French may be a fallacy. They may know CAPSLOCK, or they may not -- France is a big country. (Well, they probably know him now that he's got Load Runner out there, and has made a name for himself, so to speak.) _____ ||___|| Jerry Kindall | Internet: jerryk@pro-tcc.cts.com | o | 2612 Queensway Drive | UUCP: nosc!crash!pro-tcc!jerryk |__O__| Grove City, OH 43123-3347 | GEnie: A2.JERRY ALine: A2 Jerry The diskette icon is a copyrighted portion of the "Look and Feel" of this signature. All rights reserved. (grin)
krb20699@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (12/22/89)
Photonix doesn't work on ROM 03 machines. I think is says so in the docs file. I can't remember the memory requirement, though. Ken. ken-b@uiuc.edu