Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!iscuva!jimc
From: jimc@iscuva.ISCS.COM (Jim Cathey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Playboy virus - BEWARE!
Message-ID: <1580@iscuva.ISCS.COM>
Date: 1 Jun 88 18:28:19 GMT
References: <258@uvabick.UUCP>
Organization: ISC Systems Corporation, Spokane, WA
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In article <258@uvabick.UUCP> thomas@uvabick.UUCP (Thomas Fruin) writes:
>Through a dealer I heard that a new Macintosh virus had been sighted
>here in the Netherlands, in Utrecht to be precise.  It was called 
>Playboy or something similar, and after double clicking rapidly
>started showing you pictures of benevolent nude girls, while it was
>malevolently busy erasing your hard disk ...

A point of terminology... from the description this sounds like a 
'trojan horse' rather than a virus.  A virus is a program that modifies
other programs to spread itself.  A trojan horse just suckers you into
running it (by implying that it's useful/nifty) whereupon it trashes you.

Just trying to be nit-picky, er, ...accurate.

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