Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!hafro!isgate!krafla!frisk
From: frisk@rhi.hi.is (Fridrik Skulason)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: AIDS PC Trojan (Was Re: AIDS PC Virus)
Message-ID: <1452@krafla.rhi.hi.is>
Date: 12 Jan 90 10:03:01 GMT
References: <7064@chaph.usc.edu> <297@nbivax.nbi.dk> <25a10a71:3590.4comp.sys.ibm.pc;1@vpnet.UUCP> <358@marvin.moncam.co.uk>
Reply-To: frisk@rhi.hi.is (Fridrik Skulason)
Organization: University of Iceland (RHI)
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In article <358@marvin.moncam.co.uk> emmo@moncam.co.uk (Dave Emmerson) writes:
>I dunno what you'd call it elsewhere, but over here the term that comes
>to mind is 'queer-bashing'
>Think about it, all the intended victims attended an AIDS conference, that's
>where the postal list is said to originate.

Sorry - incorrect. Only a part of the names used was derived from that source.

It seems now that the primary motive was simple extortion - when the Trojan
(note: it is NOT a virus) scrambled the disk, you were supposed to send
a check to Panama in order to get a program to unscramble the disk. 

The plan did not work and it is now fairly certain that they lost a good
deal of money :-)

-frisk

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         Fridrik Skulason          University of Iceland
         frisk@rhi.hi.is           Computing Sevices

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