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From: clarson@ux.acs.umn.edu (Chaz Larson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: Hypercard virus?  Anybody seen it?
Keywords: virus
Message-ID: <2430@ux.acs.umn.edu>
Date: 13 Oct 90 18:27:45 GMT
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Reply-To: clarson@ux.acs.umn.edu (Chaz Larson)
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In article <9113@milton.u.washington.edu> bjornl@milton.u.washington.edu (Bjorn Levidow) writes:
>HyperCard has been crashing on me lately for no apparant reason, and
>I read in the Disinfectant 2.0 on-line manual that there is a HC virus.
>Has anybody been infected?  Does anybody know what the symptoms are?
>What the vector is?  How to get rid of it if I have it?  Any and all 
>information will be appreciated.  Thanks in advance.

The only HyperCard-specific virus I can recall was something called "Dukakis".
It appeared around the time of the 1988 elections and was written entirely
in HyperTalk.  It didn't do anything particularly nasty; it just wrote
"Vote for Dukakis!" or somesuch into the message box periodically [I guess it
depends on your political leanings as to whether or not that's "nasty" :)]
It certainly wouldn't cause HyperCard to crash.

To excise this virus, open the questionable stack and type 
searchscript Dukakis
into the message box.  If you find any, delete the offending scripts.

I don't think this is your problem, however.  What are the specifics of your
crashing problem?

chaz



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clarson@ux.acs.umn.edu                                       AOL:Crowbone