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Your mail could not be delivered. Please send your mail to ihlpb!dalenber@att.com. Your not delivered mail follows: ================================ From cwjcc.INS.CWRU.Edu!gatech!GITVM1.gatech.edu!FRAC-L Thu Jan 11 21:03:34 EST 1990 remote from inet Return-Path: Received: by cwjcc.INS.CWRU.Edu (5.61+ida+/CWRU-1.6) id AA09616; Thu, 11 Jan 90 21:11:49 -0500 (from gatech!VM1.GATECH.EDU!FRAC-L for ihlpb!dalenber@research.att.com) Received: from vm1.gatech.edu by gatech.edu (5.58/GATECH-8.6) id AA11167 for ihlpb!dalenber; Thu, 11 Jan 90 21:10:35 EST Message-Id: <9001120210.AA11167@gatech.edu> Received: from VM1.GATECH.EDU by VM1.GATECH.EDU ; Thu, 11 Jan 90 21:10:55 EST Received: from GITVM1.BITNET by VM1.GATECH.EDU (Mailer R2.03B) with BSMTP id 6822; Thu, 11 Jan 90 21:08:43 EST Date: Thu, 11 Jan 90 21:03:34 EST Reply-To: 'FRACTAL' discussion list Sender: 'FRACTAL' discussion list From: "Robert S. French" Subject: Viruses and fractals X-To: frac-l%gitvm1.bitnet@MITVMA.MIT.EDU To: Multiple recipients of list FRAC-L I haven't seen any mention of this here, so I thought I might as well forward the message. I have no first-hand knowledge of the virus, but figured it might affect some people on this list. Rob ----- Begin Forwarded Message Date: Thu, 11 Jan 90 11:19:25 EST Sender: Virus Alert List From: IRMSS907%SIVM.BITNET@IBM1.CC.LEHIGH.EDU Subject: FRACTAL VIRUS ALERT! To: Multiple recipients of list VALERT-L VIRUS ALERT: IBM-compatible personal computers The Vector: THE DESKTOP FRACTAL DESIGN SYSTEM (Michael F. Barnsley) The Desktop Fractal Design System by Michael F. Barnsley, Iterated Systems, Inc. (1989) is infected with a virus. The program is sold through Academic Press and is a companion program to Barnsley's textbook on fractals, "Fractals Everywhere". Academic Press is aware of the problem, and will replace the distribution disk with a clean copy if you return it to them. The virus does not seem to attach itself to the operating system, but increases the length of every .EXE file run after an infected program has been run. The only .EXE file whose length does not increase is the vector, SAT.EXE, the main program of The Desktop Fractal Design System. Other symptoms include displacement of blocks of text on the screen and total disruption of asynch communications. I have also seen "Stack overflow" errors in dBASE since I installed the infected program. I do not know if there are more serious delayed effects. I assume that this was an accidental infection before the program left Iterated Systems. I don't know whether Academic Press is making any effort to contact people who have purchased the program. It's a great program, and probably a lot of people will pass copies to their friends. Watch out for it! ----- End Forwarded Message