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From: andrew@ems.Ems.MN.ORG (Andrew C. Esh)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: grapes?
Message-ID: <4191@ems.Ems.MN.ORG>
Date: 15 Feb 88 23:49:58 GMT
References: <415@houxj.UUCP>
Reply-To: andrew@ems.Ems.MN.ORG (Andrew C. Esh)
Organization: EMS/McGraw-Hill, Eden Pairie, MN
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Keywords: trojan
Summary: Not grapes, horse apples

>> I thought I had a curiosity...but now I'm worried.  I have a few icons on
>> my Mac II hard disk system that have become 'grapes'.  When I showed this
>> to someone, he thought he remembered this symptom as being one associated
>> with a trojan horse or worm.
>> The icon looks like a cluster of grapes on it's side....

	I imagined a cluster of grapes on it's side, and what I saw looked
very much like a pile of Horse APPLES.  This is probably the handiwork of a
MacProgrammer gone bad, or one who has been captured and forced to program
for the Blue Horde.  Let's try to backtrack this one and send them an IBM
program that makes rude noises.  (oh, they wouldn't be able to figure out what
the noises are, given the quality of the IBM-PC sound system, oh well ...:-)
	Seriously, use ResEdit to look at the icons in any suspect programs
you may have downloaded.  If you can find the original copy of the
icon, you've found the source of the problem.

					- Andrew

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