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From: us269574@mmm.serc.3m.com (Darryn J. Kozak)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Joke or Virus?
Message-ID: <1990Dec5.153445.7094@mmm.serc.3m.com>
Date: 5 Dec 90 15:34:45 GMT
Organization: 3M - St. Paul, MN  55144-1000 US
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I received an unusual dialog error message yesterday and was wondering if
it was truly an error - or maybe a virus. I was running an application 
(Diskfit - backup utility), when a dialog box was displayed that had a
bomb in it, the following message: "Sorry a critiical shortage of memory
has forced this program to be terminated. Please assign blame below:",
four check boxes (labeled: programmer, user, hardware, cosmic rays), and
a default button labeled "Finder").

Is this a Diskfit error, a system error, a virus - someones idea of a joke?

At the time I didn't think it was very funny, since I had just backed up
about 45MB of 55MB to floppies.

Anyone know?

        Darryn Kozak

        3M Center
        260-4A-08
        St. Paul, MN 55144

        phone:          612-733-3271
        email:          us269574@mmm.3m.com or kozak@umn-cs.edu
        FAX:            612-737-3213