On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 03:46:58PM -0700, Ken Bloom wrote: > Despite all this, the only Macintosh virus I ever saw in the wild was > MerryXmas, a HyperCard virus which had a completely different attack > vector. Yes, folks, when the news came out that a Microsoft product was > the first product that could spread viruses in *documents* rather than > executables, I already knew that it wasn't unique. HyperCard viruses had > already been spreading for in HyperCard stacks years.
My favorite (which nearly gave my Gramma a heart attack) was NVIRb (I seem to remember the name being something like that, but I think the name was based on the name of the resource type; and that can't be right, 'coz they're all 4 characters long). If you had MacinTalk installed, it would randomly say, "Don't Panic" at application launch. :-) > Despite all this, the viruses that spread today are *much* less crafty > than anything you needed to do on the Mac or DOS. I seem to remember reading the source code to the I Love You virus, and seeing something like "// I hat school" or "// I hate schol" or something. (Clearly the author didn't know what he/she was missing out on...). -- Micah J. Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
