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From: angst%csilvax@hub.ucsb.edu (vaguely human)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: UPTIME VIRUS
Keywords: MacWorld/Virus/Uptime
Message-ID: <767@hub.ucsb.edu>
Date: 14 Aug 88 08:09:19 GMT
Sender: news@hub.ucsb.edu
Reply-To: angst%csilvax@hub.ucsb.edu (vaguely human)
Organization: ///Club Angst!\\\
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A friend of mine received a disk in the mail from a company called "UPTIME."
It was billed as "public domain" software which was being given out for free,
due to something or other about MacWorld.  Well, he doesn't even subscribe to
MacWorld, but they got his address somehow or other.

Well, he was fool enough to load the disk and try some of the programs.
Apparently, there's a lame football program on the disk and some sort of
"money" program as he calls it (in addition to others).  He ran the "money"
program and it said something like "rearranging system folder; this may
take a while."  Sensing destruction, my friend tried to restart his Mac II,
but the disk would not come out.  Of course it would not boot off of this
nasty disk, so after a few failed attempts, he used a paper clip to eject
the sickly disk.

He booted from a System floppy, and then reinstalled his system folder, 
thinking all was well.  Well, a short time later, his Mac just turned off
while he was typing, just as if he had selected "Shut down" from the "I
can't remember which" menu.  He looked in his system folder, and, surprise,
all of the icons had an "A" written across them.

Has anyone else seen this virus?  Has anyone found a cure?

And no, it's not for me, it's for my friend.  No, really...

but you...without clothes		 |           Dave Stein
oh, i could not keep a straight face	 |   angst%csilvax@hub.ucsb.edu
me -- without clothes?			 |  angst%csilvax@ucsbuxa.bitnet
well a nation turns its back and gags... | ...ucbvax!ucsbcsl!csilvax!angst