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- From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib)
- Subject: Re: File called "SUICIDE.IBM"
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- Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 19:01:52 GMT
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- In article <ygPsqB1w164w@mma.guild.org> al@mma.guild.org (Al Steane) writes:
- >A friend of mine mentioned that he had been cleaning up the disc on his
- >machine and found a file in his root directory called SUICIDE.IBM taking about
- >50k bytes. He immediately ran SCAN to check for viruses but found nothing. Has
- >anyone else found this file on their machines? Can you tell me where it comes
- >from and whether it is benign or malignant?
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- Have him TYPE the file. Could be a prank. Does he have friends
- who use Macs?
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