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From: mkheintz@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Michael Heintz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Is there a current 'time bomb?'
Message-ID: <4530@vela.acs.oakland.edu>
Date: 4 Jan 91 02:25:27 GMT
References: <8624@uwm.edu> <5543@rex.cs.tulane.edu>
Reply-To: mkheintz@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Michael Heintz)
Organization: Oakland University, Rochester MI
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In article <5543@rex.cs.tulane.edu> lang@rex.cs.tulane.edu (Raymond Lang) writes:
>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

I recently (like 5 days ago) got antetris and thought it was neat how
the program reset the high scores on New Year's.  However, I have
experienced no significant problems to speak of.  I got antetris off
the binaries, but I also saw it at an FTP site...where did you get 
your copy???

Mike
mkheintz@vela.acs.oakland.edu