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- From: bontchev@fbihh.informatik.uni-hamburg.de (Vesselin Bontchev)
- Newsgroups: comp.virus
- Subject: Re: F-PROT reports Bugsres 3 Jokes program? (PC)
- Message-ID: <0004.9209092012.AA23912@barnabas.cert.org>
- Date: 7 Sep 92 20:29:15 GMT
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- dana%are.Berkeley.EDU@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Dana E. Keil) writes:
-
- > I just obtained F-PROT. Running a scan with it reports that a file
- > named bugres.com is infected with a virus named "bugsres 3 jokes
- > program". I can find no mention of this virus anywhere in F-PROT
- > documentation (nor elsewhere). Can anyone enlighten me about it?
-
- It's not a virus; it's a joke program. If you run it, it goes TSR and
- each time you press Alt-B, a bunch of crudely drawn (using text
- characters) bugs begin to eat your text screen. When you press a key,
- the bugs disappear and the previous contents of the screen is
- restored.
-
- Regards,
- Vesselin
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