woody@chinacat.Unicom.COM (Woody Baker @ Eagle Signal) (09/19/90)
About a year and a half ago, one of the guys at work had been playing Lesiure Suit Larry a lot. One day, he mistyped the date, to somthing like the next year, and up popped a colored picture of a computer with a jagged break down the middle. We never did find what it was, but did suspect a virus. We have not been able to find it since. Has anyone ever seen this before? Secondarily, it seems to me that there is a class of viruses that we fortunatly have not seen yet. Application specific viruses. Consider a virus written by someone who is POed at LOTUS for thier recent court victory (really a sad chapter in computer history). This virus would infect and spread, but only corrupt a program that had a lotus copyright on it. I seem to remember a note about a bulgarian virus that looked for an anti viral product and trashed it. Has anyone encountered a virus that exhibits the above behaviors? Cheers Woody
tarquin@athena.mit.edu (Robert P Poole) (09/23/90)
>About a year and a half ago, one of the guys at work had been playing >Lesiure Suit Larry a lot. One day, he mistyped the date, to somthing >like the next year, and up popped a colored picture of a computer with >a jagged break down the middle. We never did find what it was, but >did suspect a virus. We have not been able to find it since. Has >anyone ever seen this before? Sierra On Line, the producers of Leisure Suit Larry, have been warning people for a while now that there are pirated copies of LSL floating around which are infected with a virus. A banking firm in England had a copy of the infected game on their system, and one day it wiped out their entire database (I kid you not). Moral of the story is: (a) don't play games on corporate computers (b) don't screw around with pirated copies of certain software. - -- Robert P. Poole tarquin@athena.mit.edu 46 Massachusetts Avenue MIT Course VIII 311B Bexley Hall "We make Idols of our concepts, but Cambridge, MA 02139 wisdom is born of wonder."