Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!ut-sally!utastro!bill From: bill@utastro.UUCP (William H. Jefferys) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Virus on the Mac? Message-ID: <2489@utastro.UUCP> Date: 3 Mar 88 03:55:15 GMT References: <1056@hubcap.UUCP> Reply-To: bill@astro.UUCP (William H. Jefferys) Organization: UT AUSTIN Astronomy Department/McDonald Observatory Lines: 17 Keywords: Virus Sumex In article <1056@hubcap.UUCP> mmccann@hubcap.UUCP (Mike McCann) writes: ~I recently downloaded a file from sumex which after running for a few ~seconds, crashed on me. The mouse was frozen, so when I reset the Mac ~the hard drive wouldnt come up and it was treated as an non-mac disk. ~Was this a freak accident or are there virus programs out there which ~attack macs? If so, is there a program that can successfully detect ~virus programs? Help........... ~ What program was this that caused this problem? Without this information your article can't help (warn) anyone else, and no-one else can help you! Bill Jefferys -- Glend. I can call spirits from the vasty deep. Hot. Why, so can I, or so can any man; But will they come when you do call for them? -- Henry IV Pt. I, III, i, 53