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From: lang@rex.cs.tulane.edu (Raymond Lang)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Is there a current 'time bomb?'
Message-ID: <5543@rex.cs.tulane.edu>
Date: 2 Jan 91 15:11:27 GMT
References: <8624@uwm.edu>
Organization: C.S. Dept, Tulane Univ., New Orleans, LA
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In <8624@uwm.edu> mcgu5464@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Ronald J Mcguire) writes:

>Is or was there a current time bomb set for Jan 1, 1991? Suddenly today
>I've had megga disk slowdown, GS/OS crashes (like *dead*), and out of
>memory errors... I'm really frustrated. I haven't added anything new to
>my system disk in a few weeks, but I did just get antetris, zpack, and
						   ^^^^^^^^

I've been playing this myself since it came across the binaries a few
weeks back. I don't think it's properly shutting down: I've found it
necessary to select "quit" from the Finder and restart after playing it.
When Antetris quits, GS/OS still thinks it's open (i.e., it won't copy
the sys file). Could be infected. The high score resets on Jan. 1.
Maybe that was a trojan horse time bomb.

Ray
lang@rex.cs.tulane.edu