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Post #25 by shred
Source Forum68kMLA
CategoryTroubleshooting
Post DateMon, 28 Jul 2008 - 10:34
Original URLhttps://68kmla.org/bb/threads/darn-scary-68k-virus.14075/
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I used to like some of the Mac viruses (virii ?) - they were more jokes than the evil, scary things that get around in the Windows community nowadays.

nVir, I think was one that would look for Macintalk (software speech synthesiser). If the virus found it, a voice would come out of the Mac at random intervals saying "Don't panic" (partly a reference to Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide To the Galaxy?). That was all it did! Unfortunately it contained some bugs that tended to make infected computers unstable, but it was *very* common.

A good practical joke extension was "DOSsHell". During boot, the Mac display would go black and a C:\ prompt would appear in the top left corner. Pressing a key would resume the normal boot process.

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