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From: edmunds@gandalf.nosc.mil (Daniel G. Edmunds)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Strange things are afoot on my Mac IIcx
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Date: 6 Sep 90 23:12:32 GMT
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Reply-To: edmunds@gandalf.nosc.mil (Daniel G. Edmunds)
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Well, I think my Mac IIcx has come down with a strange virus.   Seemingly
unrelated weird goings on have cropped up in the last two days.  Not all
at once, but gradually.  I have run Disenfectant 2.1 scans on numerous 
occasions and turned up nothing.

The first thing that happened was that Finder Sounds just stopped working
when I closed a window.  Everything looked OK, but it just wouldn't work.
I ran Dis 2.1 and it said that Finder Sounds had a corrupted data fork.
So I removed it from the system folder and continued on.

Later that day, I tried to print out a Word file on my PaintJet and I got
a "The application 'Microsoft Word' has unexpectedlly quit (1)"  I tried
again and got the same message.  I tried again with the printer set to draft
mode only (the other attempts had been "Best" mode) and it worked.  Hmmm.  I
tried printing with other programs and observed the same behavior.

This morning, Iwas editing an AutoCad drawing and the printer began printing
out a constant stream of three ascii characters in a repeating pattern
whenever the mouse was idle.  As soon as I moved it or clicked, the
printer would stop until the mouse was idle and I wasn't in the middle of
a command.  Then, suddenly, it stopped printing when the mouse was idle
and began to do it whenever the pointer was moved off of the drawing window
and onto a scroll bar or pull down menu (as long as the button is not
depressed)  I should point out that this happened when a different printer was
selected with Chooser, and when no printer was selected.

I have tried reinstalling the system (6.0.5), rebuilding the desktop, runnig
with Finder on and Multifinder off and vice versa.  The only recent change
to my system has been a Kensington Turbo ADB Mouse that is installed in the
same port as my old mouse had been in.  That was a hardware change only,
no software was involved.

As you can probably tell, I am a new Mac user, and know little about the
inner workings of this thing.  It could be a hardware problem, but the
seemingly unrelatedness and weirdness of these problems makes me think
that, I can't stop myself from saying this, my APPLE has a WORM in it.

Anything sound familiar to anyone?

Dan Edmunds                                                    (619) 672-0975
                                                     edmunds@gandalf.NOSC.MIL