mw2k+@andrew.cmu.edu (Miles Asher Weissman) (05/10/89)
There is the possibilty that there is a new virus out there. The details I have at this time are what is contained in the following letter. If anyone has any information at all, or would be interested in trying to see if this is a new virus, please contact the party mentioned below, and cc a copy to me. Thanks in advance. ---------- Forwarded message begins here ---------- Date: Tue, 9 May 1989 23:13-EDT From: Michael.Mills@B.GP.CS.CMU.EDU To: Miles Asher Weissman <mw2k+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU> i thought i'd try asking you first since you've been of great help to us in csd. a large local company has been afflicted with a macintosh virus over the past few days which apple claims to have never seen before. it evades cleanup with Disinfectant 1.1. it apparently affects the resource fork of various files in the system folder which disallows the system to access its pointers. the result is that you can't throw these away and the memory remains allocated. this beastie has also randomly destroyed various personal folders. they found no pattern in what was missing; they also found no new mysterious files. no other major clues. thanks, mike