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- │ VIRUS REPORT │
- │ Apple Virus │
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- Date of Origin: Fall, 1989.
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- Host Machine: Macintosh.
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- The Apple virus is a "RESET" instruction followed by a "NOP"
- instruction. The unusual sequence of statements (normally one would put
- the "NOP" before the "RESET") makes it a surprisingly hard to detect and
- disassemble. To propagate, the user must use Apple's Resource Editor
- (ResEdit) to cut and paste this virus into every program that they want
- it to infect. The virus seems to be more a tool for virus planters than
- something that will be causing widespread damage directly.
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- ║ This document was adapted from the book "Computer Viruses", ║
- ║ which is copyright and distributed by the National Computer ║
- ║ Security Association. It contains information compiled from ║
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- ║ presented here is accurate. ║
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