mak@cs.nott.ac.uk (Martijn Koster) (01/24/90)
There I was, opening a C source file, an _aardvark_ appeared in my SFGetFile dialog. Thinking that half a nigth's coding might have damaged my brain I asked a friend of mine, and he saw it too. It's a cute aardvark. Remember that cartoon on tv, part of the pink panther show, about an aardvark and an ant? Well, that's the one. Standing under the Cancel button, with its hands (paws?) on its belly, looking at the list files in the current directory, probably wondering why all my files have ridiculous names. Anyway, what I want to know is: Where did it come from? I certainly didn't put it there, never seen no aardvark on my Mac. It was still there when I rebooted without INITs, so I took a look with Resedit v1.3d1, and found it in the System File, in DLOGs -3999 "Mac II Save" and -40000 "Mac II Open". The PICT had ID=666, and had the name "Call 612-942-0134 MPN BBS". I had Fedit search my HD for the ascii string "Mac II Open", and it found the string in the System only. I then removed the PICT from the System, and searched for "MPN BBS", and again no luck. But I used SUM TuneUp to erase free space before I checked for "MPN BBS". System info: 1Meg MacPlus, System 6.0.2, loadsa inits. At the time of this unexpected visit, I was debugging a program of mine that sometimes crahsed in SFGetFile. Most of the times I got an address bomb, once an out of memory bomb. Then I restarted without any inits (so also without SAM Intercept). Within a couple of minutes the aardvark appeared. (I later found the address error bug, my own fault, I was dereferencing a volume reference number) Now, I'm not saying "virus", no "false-alarm" flames please. I did check with Disinfectant 1.5, and that didn't find anything. I just want to know how that aardvark got there. If nobody ever experienced this before, could somebody call MPN BBS 612-942-0134, and find out what's happening? By the way, what's the difference, if any, between an aardvark and an ant-eater? And what was the name of this particular aardvark? Blue something? All reactions greatly appreciated. Martijn Koster --------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Martijn Koster | 2nd year Comp. Sci. student | I aint afraid | | mak@cs.nott.ac.uk | Nottingham University | of no aardvark | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------