Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!snorkelwacker!usc!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!unix.cis.pitt.edu!dsinc!netnews.upenn.edu!vax1.cc.lehigh.edu!cert.sei.cmu.edu!krvw From: edmunds%gandalf.nosc.mil@nosc.mil (Daniel G. Edmunds) Newsgroups: comp.virus Subject: Strange things are afoot on my Mac IIcx (Mac) Message-ID: <0006.9009101250.AA03627@ubu.cert.sei.cmu.edu> Date: 6 Sep 90 23:06:11 GMT Sender: Virus Discussion List Lines: 45 Approved: krvw@sei.cmu.edu 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. 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 no printer was selected on chooser. In fact, I had selected another printer just to see if I could make it stop doing this. No luck. 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