[comp.virus] Washing machine

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.

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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