I did some searching online and found: The original Auto=start virus was called AutoStart 9805. It named itself DB and Desktop Print Spooler
9805-B named itself DB and Desktop Printr Spooler (extinct, dies in 1998) 9805C renames/kills old variants, names itselt DELDB and DELDDesktop Print Spooler (extinct, dies in 1998) 9805D renames/kills old variants, names itselt DELDB and DELDDesktop Print Spooler (extinct, dies in 1998) 9805E names itselt DELDB and DELDDesktop Print Spooler (extinct, dies in 1999) 9805F is most similar to A and E variants, and names itself DB and Desktop Print Spooler. Is still "alive". Note: C and D variants were the original author trying to stop the virus, E and F were most likely some other hacker trying to keep it spreading. There were several CD's published infected with this virus, from MacAddict, Hoyle's Classic Card games and Casino, Linux R5, Wacom, Digital Performer, Arboretum, and more. Fortunately, all these variants are expired. So change my advice: Only create two files, DB and Desktop Print Spooler. Put DB on the highest volume level, and Desktop Print Spooler in the Extensions folder and you are protected. (I no longer feel the need to worry about all this, as I long ago disabled Quicktime's autostart feature) BTW: I believe one can also prevent this from spreading by disabling the Quicktime auto-start feature. Mark James SoftRAID, LLC mjames@ softraid.com $ chown -R us:us yourbase (If you have no clue to the above, don't worry, be happy) ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
