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echo: virus_info
to: GENE PARIS
from: MAGNUS KARLSSON
date: 1997-01-14 18:35:00
subject: Morons destroy hardware...

 MK>> Strangely enough there aren't lots of viruses around which
 MK>> play with the monitor's scanning frequency. One explanation
 GP> Because it is a useless thing to do. It only scares pretenders
 GP> to knowledge like yourself.
I'm sorry. I must have been hallucinating and only thought I broke
that monitor. Funny, everybody else present must have been too.
And we must all be hallucinating still...
--- FEddi 0.9pl7 via ifcico
 MK>> I also recall hearing about an Amiga virus which played a
 MK>> "tune" on the disk drive until it broke, but I'm not 100% 
 KW> i would assume that commodore built the amiga better than that
I'm not sure. That drive was amazingly software controllable. But 
I've never owned an Amiga myself and have to rely on second-hand
information. I do remember, however, that it was possible to do
various "odd" things with that drive. Anyone who knows are most 
welcome to enlighten us.
--- FEddi 0.9pl7 via ifcico
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