There were some worms that came out about the time Apple started the
Snail/Intel commercials. They just slowed the Macs down using the
auto-start feature of Quicktime and were pretty easy to disable and
remove. It hit about a dozen of my client's machines and started after
unsolicited restarts.
On Jul 3, 2005, at 7:32 PM, Geoffrey Davis wrote:
the closest thing I ever had to a virus was putting on the thing that
makes the computer get happy when you plug in the power cord, i did
it to my wife's powerbook once...
As I recall, there wee a bunch of "novelty" inits one dropped in the
extensions folder that did amusing things; unable to control mouse,
started scanning like an old B&W TV (complete with snow), beeping,
burping, brought up custom screens telling you your HD was deleting
(complete with progress bar...)
The only real "virus" that's ever cropped up in my time working with
Macs has been through Microsoft Word documents. Some bright spark
decided to infect the macros. Most annoying, but, like the other stuff
easily fixed.
gwd
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