Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!lll-winken!iggy.GW.Vitalink.COM!widener!netnews.upenn.edu!vax1.cc.lehigh.edu!cert.sei.cmu.edu!krvw From: thomas%mvac23.uucp@udel.edu (Thomas Lapp) Newsgroups: comp.virus Subject: Interesting action with MACs (Mac) Message-ID: <0012.9106281824.AA04058@ubu.cert.sei.cmu.edu> Date: 28 Jun 91 03:25:22 GMT Sender: Virus Discussion List Lines: 50 Approved: krvw@sei.cmu.edu This came from a colleague at work who works with our PCs. In a followup message she sent to me today, she indicated that a technician seems to think it is more a problem with some flakey hardware taking a bunch of other pieces out, and that it was just coincidence that System 7 was going in at the same time... If anyone else has seen anything like this, I'd be real interested in knowing more, and passing it back to Barbara. -tom From: NAME: Barbara J. Miller FUNC: ISD-P&DD/IT&E To: NAME: Thomas L. Lapp Thought you might be interested in hearing about a "potential virus". It has not been declared a virus by anyone at this point, but I always like to expect the worst until it is determined. From: NAME: Barbara J. Miller FUNC: ISD-P&DD/IT&E Date: 26-Jun-1991 Posted-date: 26-Jun-1991 Precedence: 1 Subject: Virus Alert - Mac's S7 To: See Below Virus Alert: I just received word of a virus that was encountered during a Mac System 7 installation. Both the keyboard and mouse DIED on three machines that just had System 7 installed on them. The customer then attached a voltage meter to the ADB port of a fourth machine only to find a unusually high reading. It appears the virus destroys chips on the mouse and keyboard. Suggestions: Be cautious when installing S7. Be sure it is a CLEAN copy - directly from Apple or from CD-ROM. Apple has been contacted. - tom - -- internet : mvac23!thomas@udel.edu or thomas%mvac23@udel.edu (home) : 4398613@mcimail.com (work) uucp : {ucbvax,mcvax,uunet}!udel!mvac23!thomas Location : Newark, DE, USA