dmg@lid.mitre.org (David Gursky) (11/09/89)
In Virus-L V2 #235, "Gregory E. Gilbert" <C0195@UNIVSCVM.BITNET> asks about the "Macwight" (sic) virus. Recently, there was a report of a virus that attacked MacWrite from the University of Rochester. Since the initial report however, nothing has been heard from them.
jap2_ss@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (The Mad Mathematician) (11/09/89)
In article <0004.8911081210.AA26585@ge.sei.cmu.edu> C0195%UNIVSCVM.BITNET@VMA.C C.CMU.EDU (Gregory E. Gilbert) writes: >Is there such a beast? Macwight is a name someone here at the U of R gave to an error we found in a few copies of Macwrite. Something or someone changed the icon of Macwrite to show the word Macwite instead of the lines, and the name of the the application to Macwite or Macwight. After the first few reports, I got a copy to play with for a while, but it was taken and given to someone else. Since then I haven't seen another, nor have any of the student consultants. I don't know if this was a true virus, but it a copy of Macwrite changed before the consultant's boss' eyes, ie the name changed from Macwrite to Macwite, and upon inspection via Resedit the icon was found to have changed. >Gregory E. Gilbert The Mad Mathematician jap2_ss@uhura.cc.rochester.edu Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence. Ambrose Bierce, _The_Devil's_Dictionary_