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From: jade!brenda@jade.cpsc.ucalgary.ca (Brenda Barabash)
Newsgroups: comp.virus
Subject: Re: possible macintosh virus (Mac)
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Date: 14 Jan 91 15:32:46 GMT
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mwu@teri.bio.uci.edu writes:

>Does anyone know of a Macintosh virus that will make all floppy disks
>appear to be locked to the computer? At first, we thought the problem
>was with the disk drive, but when it started surfacing on other
>computers, we've become a little suspicious. Any help would be
>appreciated.

>Matt Wu
>mwu@teri.bio.uci.edu

We are also experiencing problems with floppy disks appearing to be
locked when they aren't.  This is happening on both new disks and old
disks.  It's definitely got to be a virus.  If anyone knows which one
please let us know.

Brenda Barabash				...{calgary,arcsun}!jade!brenda
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