On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 04:57:16PM +0100, kevin lyda mentioned:
> has anyone here actually gotten a virus on a mac or windows box?
> did it actually do anything harmful?
A friend got a "ripper" virus from some machines in DCU years back. Nasty
git; it was a DOS TSR that byteswapped the first two bytes of every few
hundred disk blocks that you wrote out. I think.
Anyway, it only really showed up in games & zip files.
Kate
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