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From: phil@and.cs.liv.ac.uk (Phil Jimmieson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Joke or Virus?
Message-ID: <1990Dec11.113851.8096@and.cs.liv.ac.uk>
Date: 11 Dec 90 11:38:50 GMT
References: <1990Dec5.153445.7094@mmm.serc.3m.com>
Organization: Computer Science, Liverpool University
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In article <1990Dec5.153445.7094@mmm.serc.3m.com>, us269574@mmm.serc.3m.com (Darryn J. Kozak) writes:
> 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?

Apparently it's a joke.  The alert that you got is ID 291 - I just went looking
into DiskFit with ResEdit and found exactly the dialog that you describe.

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

Maybe they should have included a smiley...   :-)

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