[X4U] Re: Malware (Was: Consumer Reports)

Linda XPressoBean at mac.com
Fri Sep 9 09:49:13 PDT 2005


On 9/8/05 8:00 PM, Zane H. Healy wrote:

> I'd personally be very interested to hear of any viruses infecting anything
> other than the following OS's:
> 
> MS-DOS/Windows
> Macintosh (System 6 or earlier)
> Amiga OS

There was a virus in OS 8 that hid itself by appearing to be a graphics
folder/file.
<http://vil.nai.com/vil/content/Print99884.htm>

And see section 7.6 of this website for info on the AutoStart virus.
<http://www.faqs.org/faqs/computer-virus/macintosh-faq/> IIRC, this was also
OS 8.

peace,
Linda 



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