Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!nstn.ns.ca!news.cs.indiana.edu!samsung!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!unix.cis.pitt.edu!dsinc!netnews.upenn.edu!vax1.cc.lehigh.edu!cert.sei.cmu.edu!krvw From: MCMAHON@GRIN1.Bitnet (McMahon,Brian D) Newsgroups: comp.virus Subject: Re: Text in MLTI virus (PC) Message-ID: <0001.9101281420.AA16983@ubu.cert.sei.cmu.edu> Date: 24 Jan 91 19:09:49 GMT Sender: Virus Discussion List Lines: 49 Approved: krvw@sei.cmu.edu (I haven't posted here for a long while -- things have been very busy.) frisk@rhi.hi.is (Fridrik Skulason) wrote: >The MLTI virus contains this text - clearly a reference to the "Eddie" >virus, but what does "RED DIAVOLYATA" mean ? (I want to emphasize >that "Dark Avenger" is the name of the author of the "Eddie" virus - >not the name of the virus itself.) > > Eddie die somewhere in time! > This programm was written in the city of Prostokwashino > (C) 1990 RED DIAVOLYATA > Hello! MLTI! Paul Coen responded: >Well, I can't help you with the RED DIAVOLYATA, aside from the rather >obvious point that it seems to be the "name" of the author. Let's hope not. :-) DIAVOLYATA I think is related to English "diabolical", referring to the Devil. There are several interesting things about this signature. o "Diavolyata" does not translate directly to "Devil" in any of the Russian, Polish, Czech, Bulgarian, and Serbo-Croatian dictionaries in our library. The Russian would be "d'yavol." Transliterating from Cyrillic to Latin script gets interesting, but "diavol" is a plausible rendition. (I could go on, but it's outside of the list's topic. Check the archives of RUSTEX-L on the UBVM LISTSERVer.) One wild and unsupported guess: DIAVOLYATA could be a contraction of "diavol" and "rebyata" (colloquially, "kids") for something like "devil-kids." Just a WAG (Wild-Assed Guess), though. o The city of Prostokwashino does not appear in either the Bol'shaya Sovetskaya or the Brockhaus (generally good for Eastern Europe). "Prostokvasha" is Russian for "curdled milk." o MLTI is an abbreviation for "Moskov'skij Lesotekhnicheskij Institut," the Moscow Forest Engineering Institute. It's been several years since my last Russian class -- make of this what you will, but at your own risk... Brian McMahon | VAX Kludgemeister, Macintosh Medic, Grinnell College Computer Services | Human Help Key, support for sundry Grinnell, Iowa 50112 USA | stats packages, and rookie DECUS Voice: +1 515 269 4901 | Symposia Editor. Please allow two Fax: +1 515 269 4936 | to four weeks for miracles.