XRJDM@SCFVM.GSFC.NASA.GOV (Joe McMahon) (06/28/89)
<ACSAZ@SEMASSU.BITNET> (Alex Z.) asks: >Besides nVir and Scores, what other viruses are `out' for the Mac. I >am interested in their frequency of appearence and how they can be >identified and dealt with. The current count is 9. Scores, nVIR (two strains and three clones - MEV#, Hpat, and AIDS), INIT 29, Peace, and ANTI. Get a copy of my virus doc stack from the LISTSERV at SCFVM; if you need help in doing that, drop me some E-mail. Kenneth R. van Wyk <krvw@SEI.CMU.EDU> quotes Fred Cohen: > ... "On the very widely >used Compuserve network, a virus was apparently planted to infect the >initialization files of the Apple MacIntosh. This virus was designed >to put an advertisement on the screen on a particular date and then >delete itself. It was noticed by a programmer browsing through his >system initialization files and was traced to a company that had added >a program to the Compuserve library. The perpetrator was barred from >Compuserve 'forever'. Compuserve has countered by providing a public >domain program that constantly runs in the background checking for >modifications to system initialization files and asks the user if >these are desired...." The virus portion is correct; it refers to the "Peace" virus. It was distributed in a Trojan HyperCard stack. The anti-viral in question is Vaccine, distributed by CE Software, *not* CompuServe. CIS did not sponsor the development or distribution of this program; it was done solely in a spirit of public service by Don Brown at CE Software. --- Joe M.