frisk@rhi.hi.is (Fridrik Skulason) (01/12/90)
In article <358@marvin.moncam.co.uk> emmo@moncam.co.uk (Dave Emmerson) writes: >I dunno what you'd call it elsewhere, but over here the term that comes >to mind is 'queer-bashing' >Think about it, all the intended victims attended an AIDS conference, that's >where the postal list is said to originate. Sorry - incorrect. Only a part of the names used was derived from that source. It seems now that the primary motive was simple extortion - when the Trojan (note: it is NOT a virus) scrambled the disk, you were supposed to send a check to Panama in order to get a program to unscramble the disk. The plan did not work and it is now fairly certain that they lost a good deal of money :-) -frisk -- Fridrik Skulason University of Iceland frisk@rhi.hi.is Computing Sevices Guvf yvar vagragvbanyyl yrsg oynax .................