S004@HECMTL01.BITNET (Marc TARDIF) (11/27/90)
I Netlanders, Last weekend we had the worst time with virus in our labs. We got stoned, jerusalem'ed, ping pong'ed. I found a funny thing on one of the machine. This is a tsr file who responded when the return key is pressed. It say that your disk need a cleaning and ask for a confirmation. When you agree for a cleaning the floppy disk drive start. Then "washing cycle" is writen at the bottom of the screen and a washing machine sound come from the speaker. After that there's a spin cycle, a rince cycle and another spin cycle with all appropriate sounds. At the end of the process it says that your disk is clean. I checked all disks and no damaged occured. But it's kind of funny joke. I reset the PC and forgot to take a copy. If a see it again i'll take a copy and let it avalaible to the net. I want to appologize for my lest then poor english. ========================================================================= | MARC TARDIF | Net: S004@HECMTL01.BITNET | | Ecole des HAUTES ETUDES COMMERCIALES |============================| | MONTREAL, QUEBEC | Watch for VIRUS: | | CANADA H3T 1V6 | make backup's often | | Phone: (514) 340-6066 | trust nobody | =========================================================================
woody@chinacat.Unicom.COM (Woody Baker @ Eagle Signal) (12/01/90)
> > I found a funny thing on one of the machine. This is a tsr > file who responded when the return key is pressed. It say that your > > funny joke. I reset the PC and forgot to take a copy. If a see it > again i'll take a copy and let it avalaible to the net. Sounds to me like DRAIN. Drain is an old program that has been floating around for about 6 years. It is not a TSR. It puts an A:> prompt on the screen and looks just like you were logged onto drive A. If you do anything at all, it starts up, gives a message about how you have water in your drive, stand by, then proceeds to spin the disk furiously, all the while doing a very good imitation of a washing machine going into spin cycle. Then it slows down, and emits an extremely good imitation of water going down the drain. No havoc at all, just a joke. This sounds like a modification of it. Cheers Woody