Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!unix.cis.pitt.edu!dsinc!netnews.upenn.edu!vax1.cc.lehigh.edu!cert.sei.cmu.edu!krvw From: woody@chinacat.Unicom.COM (Woody Baker @ Eagle Signal) Newsgroups: comp.virus Subject: a long time ago (PC) Message-ID: <0007.9009191742.AA13188@ubu.cert.sei.cmu.edu> Date: 19 Sep 90 02:51:03 GMT Sender: Virus Discussion List Lines: 18 Approved: krvw@sei.cmu.edu About a year and a half ago, one of the guys at work had been playing Lesiure Suit Larry a lot. One day, he mistyped the date, to somthing like the next year, and up popped a colored picture of a computer with a jagged break down the middle. We never did find what it was, but did suspect a virus. We have not been able to find it since. Has anyone ever seen this before? Secondarily, it seems to me that there is a class of viruses that we fortunatly have not seen yet. Application specific viruses. Consider a virus written by someone who is POed at LOTUS for thier recent court victory (really a sad chapter in computer history). This virus would infect and spread, but only corrupt a program that had a lotus copyright on it. I seem to remember a note about a bulgarian virus that looked for an anti viral product and trashed it. Has anyone encountered a virus that exhibits the above behaviors? Cheers Woody