<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">The Autostart virus could infect floppies,
ZIP Disks and CD's if they became infected with them.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Back in 99 under OS8.6 I think it was,
we received a few Zips that had the Autostart virus and a few Macs became
infected but it was well taken care of by a few free utilities on the web.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">The way to disable the virus from propagating
was to turn off preferences that would allow auto start items to run when
a disk/disc was inserted.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">That's the most significant virus I
remember.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Coj</font>
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<br><font size=1 face="sans-serif"><b>Randy B.Singer <randy@macattorney.com></b></font>
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<br><font size=2><tt>Zane H. Healy said:<br>
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>Have you seen a Mac virus since the days of System 6 or early System
7? <br>
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Yes. There was even a virus that could take advantage of Outlook
Express <br>
under OS 8/9 and mail itself out to other computers:<br>
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The Simpsons virus:<br>
http://vil.nai.com/vil/content/v_99102.htm<br>
http://www.macintouch.com/simpsonsvirus.html<br>
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It isn't that there were no viruses that could infect OS 8/9, it's just
<br>
that as floppies became less common, the vector that the majority of <br>
classis Mac OS viruses were designed to be propogated by, they became <br>
less common.<br>
<br>
In the DealMac forums is a discussion entitled: "Have you ever caught
a <br>
Mac Virus?" You might like to read the comments.<br>
http://dealmac.com/forums/read.html?f=1&i=952391&t=952391<br>
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Randy B. Singer<br>
Co-Author of: The Macintosh Bible (4th, 5th and 6th editions)<br>
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