Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!wayback!atux01!jlc
From: jlc@atux01.UUCP (J. Collymore)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: UPTIME VIRUS
Summary: A VIRUS!?
Keywords: MacWorld/Virus/Uptime
Message-ID: <728@atux01.UUCP>
Date: 26 Aug 88 20:31:13 GMT
References: <767@hub.ucsb.edu>
Organization: AT&T CSEd/CET, Piscataway, N.J.
Lines: 35

In article <767@hub.ucsb.edu>, angst%csilvax@hub.ucsb.edu (vaguely human) writes:
> A friend of mine received a disk in the mail from a company called "UPTIME."
> It was billed as "public domain" software which was being given out for free,
> due to something or other about MacWorld.  Well, he doesn't even subscribe to
> MacWorld, but they got his address somehow or other.
> 
> Well, he was fool enough to load the disk and try some of the programs.
> Apparently, there's a lame football program on the disk and some sort of
> "money" program as he calls it (in addition to others).  He ran the "money"
> program and it said something like "rearranging system folder; this may
> take a while."  Sensing destruction, my friend tried to restart his Mac II,
> but the disk would not come out.  Of course it would not boot off of this
> nasty disk, so after a few failed attempts, he used a paper clip to eject
> the sickly disk.
> 
> He booted from a System floppy, and then reinstalled his system folder, 
> thinking all was well.  Well, a short time later, his Mac just turned off
> while he was typing, just as if he had selected "Shut down" from the "I
> can't remember which" menu.  He looked in his system folder, and, surprise,
> all of the icons had an "A" written across them.
> 
> Has anyone else seen this virus?  Has anyone found a cure?
> 
> And no, it's not for me, it's for my friend.  No, really...
> 
> but you...without clothes		 |           Dave Stein

I recently received (I guess) the same disk.  I tested things out on the floppy
first.  Things seemed OK, so I dragged over MenuClock 3.0 to my system folder,
Klondike, and Money Matters to my other folders on my hard disk. 
(Note:  I have a dual floppy SE, with an external Peripheral Land PL30
Turbo hard drive).  So far, nothing weird has happened.


						Jim Collymore