billr@houxj.UUCP (UNIX Group) (02/11/88)
> I thought I had a curiosity...but now I'm worried. I have a few icons on > my Mac II hard disk system that have become 'grapes'. When I showed this > to someone, he thought he remembered this symptom as being one associated > with a trojan horse or worm. > The icon looks like a cluster of grapes on it's side.... doesn't sound like grapes to me :-) i'm sorry if it's turns out to be a virus but this struck me as really funny... :-p
andrew@ems.Ems.MN.ORG (Andrew C. Esh) (02/16/88)
>> I thought I had a curiosity...but now I'm worried. I have a few icons on >> my Mac II hard disk system that have become 'grapes'. When I showed this >> to someone, he thought he remembered this symptom as being one associated >> with a trojan horse or worm. >> The icon looks like a cluster of grapes on it's side.... I imagined a cluster of grapes on it's side, and what I saw looked very much like a pile of Horse APPLES. This is probably the handiwork of a MacProgrammer gone bad, or one who has been captured and forced to program for the Blue Horde. Let's try to backtrack this one and send them an IBM program that makes rude noises. (oh, they wouldn't be able to figure out what the noises are, given the quality of the IBM-PC sound system, oh well ...:-) Seriously, use ResEdit to look at the icons in any suspect programs you may have downloaded. If you can find the original copy of the icon, you've found the source of the problem. - Andrew -- Andrew C. Esh DOMAIN: andrew@ems.MN.ORG APPLELINK: D0492 EMS/McGraw-Hill UUCP: ihnp4!meccts!ems!andrew AT&T: (612) 829-8200
perkins@acf8.UUCP (Mark E. Perkins) (02/23/88)
Sorry to post this, but I can't find the address of the
original poster.
There is a program called "Fractal Contours" (PD or Shareware)
that has an icon which could be said to resemble grapes or road apples.
I believe that the creator for said program is "frak". If some other
application has the same creator, that could explain the problem.
I hope this is it, and not a virus, Trojan, ...
Please let me know what you discover about this.
Mark Perkins
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From: perkins@acf8.UUCP (Mark E. Perkins)
Date: 23-Feb-88 09:02 EST
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I, too, would like to give SigmaEdit a try. Could someone
mail it to me at the address below? Better yet, why not
send it to the info-mac archives?
Mark Perkins
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From: perkins@acf8.UUCP (Mark E. Perkins)
Date: 23-Feb-88 09:24 EST
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Subject: What does "ShowInit" do?
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I was going through some disks of PD and Shareware last night
when I came across a file called "ShowInit". It contains a single
INIT w/ ID=128. The problem is that I don't know seem to have any
other information about it? Can anyone tell me just what this puppy
is supposed to do?
Thanks,
Mark Perkins
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Phone: (212) 998-7861jimc@iscuva.ISCS.COM (Jim Cathey) (02/24/88)
In article <1560041@acf8.UUCP> perkins@acf8.UUCP (Mark E. Perkins) writes: > There is a program called "Fractal Contours" (PD or Shareware) >that has an icon which could be said to resemble grapes or road apples. >I believe that the creator for said program is "frak". If some other >application has the same creator, that could explain the problem. >I hope this is it, and not a virus, Trojan, ... I wrote this program some time ago, and the version I had posted to usenet was not a trojan nor viral at all. The icon, however, is not the most attractive one I'll admit -- it's a small representation of one of the output displays of a fractal contour. Kind of a gnarly looking cocked triangle with squiggly diagonal lines in it. Since I did the classic no-no and didn't check out 'frak' from Apple I guess it's possible that something else could be conflicting with it. (I found out later that Apple had reserved all- lower-case creator types for itself.) Alternately, your copy could have become damaged (or tampered with -- can you shrink-seal the cap of software?) Even your Desktop file might be damaged. Does ResEdit show the icon within FC to be the same as what the Finder shows? By the way, FC was Public Domain with sources posted with the binary (Aztec C). It was my vehicle for learning Mac programming, and had no other reason for existence. +----------------+ ! II CCCCCC ! Jim Cathey ! II SSSSCC ! ISC Systems Corp. ! II CC ! TAF-C8; Spokane, WA 99220 ! IISSSS CC ! UUCP: uunet!iscuva!jimc ! II CCCCCC ! (509) 927-5757 +----------------+ "With excitement like this, who is needing enemas?"