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From: astieber@csd4.milw.wisc.edu (Anthony J Stieber)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: pc virus ?
Keywords: ibmpc, virus.
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Date: 22 Jan 89 04:46:16 GMT
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In article <5377@bsu-cs.UUCP> dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi) writes:
>In article <7259@techunix.BITNET> ssreefc@techunix.BITNET (florin coter) writes:
>     The "ball" started to move across the screen bouncing from some
>     imaginary borders AND from some words or letters. Exiting the
>     current task or switching between text and graphic modes did not
>     cure the "ball".
>
>This is almost certainly a problem in your monitor.  I suspect a bad
>power supply.

	This could be a virus. I have a program that moves the smiling
	face character about the screen. The processing for this is
	done in the background. Making this into a non-malicious
	virus would be very easy. From the description the 'ball' does
	not seem to be a random voltage variation but a logically
	moving character.
	If anyone wants this program I can mail or post it (no source :-(
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Tony Stieber	astieber@csd4.milw.wisc.edu