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From: holland@mips.csc.ti.com (Fred Hollander)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Playboy virus - BEWARE!
Message-ID: <51076@ti-csl.CSNET>
Date: 8 Jun 88 21:12:02 GMT
References: <258@uvabick.UUCP> <24487@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>
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>>here in the Netherlands, in Utrecht to be precise.  It was called 
>>Playboy or something similar, and after double clicking rapidly
>>started showing you pictures of benevolent nude girls, while it was
>>malevolently busy erasing your hard disk ...
>
>2.) what you describe is an application, run explicitly by the user that
>does one thing, while secretly doing something else.  This properly called
>a "trojan horse", or "trojan", which is particularly humorous in this case
>since "trojan" is also an American slang word for ...

Would someone post this?  If all it does is erase the hard disk, we could
safely view the pictures if we run it without a hard [disk] on :-)

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