Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!usc!julius.cs.uiuc.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!ucsd!rutgers!netnews.upenn.edu!vax1.cc.lehigh.edu!cert.sei.cmu.edu!krvw From: tarquin@athena.mit.edu (Robert P Poole) Newsgroups: comp.virus Subject: Re: a long time ago (PC) Message-ID: <0003.9009241932.AA21398@ubu.cert.sei.cmu.edu> Date: 22 Sep 90 20:03:14 GMT Sender: Virus Discussion List Lines: 21 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? Sierra On Line, the producers of Leisure Suit Larry, have been warning people for a while now that there are pirated copies of LSL floating around which are infected with a virus. A banking firm in England had a copy of the infected game on their system, and one day it wiped out their entire database (I kid you not). Moral of the story is: (a) don't play games on corporate computers (b) don't screw around with pirated copies of certain software. - -- Robert P. Poole tarquin@athena.mit.edu 46 Massachusetts Avenue MIT Course VIII 311B Bexley Hall "We make Idols of our concepts, but Cambridge, MA 02139 wisdom is born of wonder."