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- xThe Frankie Virus
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- The Frankie virus is quite rare.
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- Frankie only affects some kinds of Macintosh emulators running on Atari
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- computers. We have reports that it was targeted against pirated versions
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- of the Aladdin emulator. It does not affect the Spectre emulator.
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- Frankie does not spread or cause any damage on any of the regular Apple
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- Macintosh computers.
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- After a time delay, Frankie draws a bomb icon and the message “Frankie
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- says: No more piracy!” at the top of the Atari screen, and then causes
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- the Atari to crash.
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- Frankie only infects applications, not system files or document files. The
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- Finder also usually becomes infected. Applications do not have to be run to
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- become infected. For technical reasons, the virus only spreads under
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- Finder, not MultiFinder.
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