Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!pacbell!ames!mailrus!cornell!vax5!pv9y From: pv9y@vax5.CIT.CORNELL.EDU Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: new virus??? Message-ID: <17489@vax5.CIT.CORNELL.EDU> Date: 6 Dec 88 03:30:01 GMT References:Sender: news@vax5.CIT.CORNELL.EDU Reply-To: pv9y@vax5.cit.cornell.edu (PUT YOUR NAME HERE) Distribution: comp Organization: Cornell Information Technologies, Ithaca NY Lines: 18 In article sarrel@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (Marc Sarrel) writes: >Well, here we go again, folks... > >I think I may have found a new virus. Interferon 3.1 did not detect >it, but some strange (if benign) things have been going on. I first >suspected a problem when three of my floppy disks (which I hadn't look >at in a month or two) suddenly had new disk icons. The new icons >resembled a "Hello, my name is ____" sticker. I tried to reformat >them, but it didn't help. Then, I decided to poke around a newly Based on this alone, it sounds as though you are running FACADE, which allows you to set specific icons to come up instead of the generic disk icons. If your disks are called Untitled, they will have that Hello, my name is icon. It also modifies the get info box, as you found. The next question is if you know you are using this INIT or if someone put it on as a joke. Adam