pirmann@porthos.rutgers.edu (Dave Pirmann) (07/19/90)
Attention people: I just got 45 messages (more than 7 meg!) from
banana@apple.com, someone whose real name is "Todd Whitecell." WRONG.
Forgery city! The messages contain BinSCII data. I have no idea what
they REALLY (the BinSCII code says "SYSTEM.DISK.SHK") are, but I am
willing to bet that it is not what it purports to be, perhaps being
some sort of virus. Watch out people.
Dave Pirmann
pirmann@rutgers.edu
cc. Todd Whitesel (toddpw@tybalt.caltech.edu)
Apple Computer (postmaster@apple.com)
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David Pirmann
pirmann@rutgers.edu
Rutgers University LCSR Operationstoddpw@tybalt.caltech.edu (Todd P. Whitesel) (07/21/90)
pirmann@porthos.rutgers.edu (Dave Pirmann) writes: >Attention people: I just got 45 messages (more than 7 meg!) from >banana@apple.com, someone whose real name is "Todd Whitecell." WRONG. >Forgery city! The messages contain BinSCII data. I have no idea what >they REALLY (the BinSCII code says "SYSTEM.DISK.SHK") are, but I am >willing to bet that it is not what it purports to be, perhaps being >some sort of virus. Watch out people. Please ignore this. What Dave got in his mailbox was 700K (not 7 megs) of shrunk and binscii'd system disk (5.0.2 so he can run soundsmith .9) from my account at Apple (I'm a summer intern there). They spelled my name wrong when they set it up, and I changed it from 'Whitecell' to 'Whitesel' with chfn yesterday afternoon. If I'd sent the mail before the binscii'd stuff instead of after, Dave would have know what was going on. Sorry for the false alarm. Todd Whitesel toddpw @ tybalt.caltech.edu