Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!munnari.oz.au!uniwa!vax6!tnorthtj
From: North_TJ@cc.cut.oz.au
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Disinfectant 1.6 oddity
Message-ID: <2102.260e4894@cc.cut.oz.au>
Date: 26 Mar 90 08:51:32 GMT
References: <46474.260AC8B9@cmhgate.FIDONET.ORG>
Organization: Curtin University of Technology
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In article <46474.260AC8B9@cmhgate.FIDONET.ORG>, Adam.Frix@p2.f200.n226.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Adam Frix) writes:
> For reasons no one cares about, I was fiddling around in Disinfectant
> 1.6 using Symantec Tools.  While in the resource fork, at sector 21, 
> offset 97, I found the word "fuck" stuck in there.  Lowercase, all by
> itself.

If you look at the sectors either side of that one you will also find the 
following words (amongst others): "MEV#", "nFLU", "Jude", "INIT 29", "MacMag",
and "ANTI" - all ow which are the names of viruses.

I would speculate that "fuck" is the name of a little-known Mac virus. Perhaps
a clone of nVIR B?
 
Tim North
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