Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!emory!ducvax.auburn.edu!eng.auburn.edu!fstuart From: fstuart@eng.auburn.edu (Frank Stuart) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc Subject: Re: Joshua virus?? Keywords: virus,joshua Message-ID: Date: 12 Feb 91 13:43:08 GMT References: Organization: Auburn University Engineering Lines: 12 Nntp-Posting-Host: lab16.eng.auburn.edu In article jhartley@bbs.sbs.com (Joe Hartley) writes: >A friend of mine with a 1000 has had a strange thing come up that sure seems >to be a virus. The system comes up with a box that floats across the screen >with the word "Joshua" (a reference to the computer in WarGames??) in it. ^^^^^^ I'm certainly no expert on virus's (Amiga or IBM), but I believe that there is an IBM virus called Joshua, though, if its able to make a box float across the screen on a Big-Blue machine, I'd consider it an improvement! ;-> Sorry I can't help more, --Frank fstuart@eng.auburn.edu