gany%TAURUS.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU (06/28/89)
Yesterday and today articles about a new virus appeared in an Israeli paper (Maariv). It seems that the virus (some sort of a TSR maybe ?) is planting typos (i.e typing mistakes) when printing to the printer. It does not affect the screen or the data on disk itself. It was even claimed that it is a mutant of the "bouncing ball" virus. Anyone heard of such virus. Has anyone been hit by that beast - or is it just the cucamber season again ?? Yair Gany School of Math. & Computer Science gany@Math.Tau.Ac.il Tel Aviv University gany@TAURUS.Bitnet
c-msmith%ug.utah.edu@cs.utexas.edu (Matt Smith) (07/06/89)
>Yesterday and today articles about a new virus appeared in an Israeli >paper (Maariv). It seems that the virus (some sort of a TSR maybe ?) >is planting typos (i.e typing mistakes) when printing to the printer. I've also heard of a virus that randomly scans the screen and looks for 4 consecutive numbers in a row (like 1234), and then proceeds to rearrange them in a different fashion. That would certainly wreak havoc in a spreadsheet program. Matt Smith c-msmith@ug.utah.edu