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- Path: sparky!uunet!stanford.edu!leland.Stanford.EDU!gsroka
- From: gsroka@leland.Stanford.EDU (Gregory Sroka)
- Subject: Re: File called "SUICIDE.IBM"
- Message-ID: <1992Sep10.202015.20532@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- Sender: news@leland.Stanford.EDU (Mr News)
- Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
- References: <ygPsqB1w164w@mma.guild.org> <BuDM74.KBv@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>
- Date: Thu, 10 Sep 92 20:20:15 GMT
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- In article <BuDM74.KBv@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib) writes:
- >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?
- >
- >Have him TYPE the file. Could be a prank. Does he have friends
- >who use Macs?
- >
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- Are there any Mac users who really know how to create a text file on an IBM-PC?
- (*GASP*) I'm stunned by the thought ...
-
- Maybe his PC was listening to Ozzy Osbourne tunes and decided to end it all...
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