Finder, not MultiFinder.

become infected. For technical reasons, the virus only spreads under

Finder also usually becomes infected. Applications do not have to be run to

Frankie only infects applications, not system files or document files. The



the Atari to crash.

says: No more piracy!” at the top of the Atari screen, and then causes

After a time delay, Frankie draws a bomb icon and the message “Frankie



Macintosh computers.

Frankie does not spread or cause any damage on any of the regular Apple



of the Aladdin emulator. It does not affect the Spectre emulator.

computers. We have reports that it was targeted against pirated versions

Frankie only affects some kinds of Macintosh emulators running on Atari



The Frankie virus is quite rare.



xThe Frankie Virus