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- xThe INIT 9403 Virus
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- The INIT 9403 virus was discovered in Italy in March, 1994. This virus is
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- also sometimes called the “SysX” virus.
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- Unlike most of the other Mac viruses, INIT 9403 is very destructive.
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- After a certain number of other files have been infected, the virus will
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- erase disks connected to the system. It attempts to destroy disk
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- information on all connected hard drives (> 16 Mb) and attempts to
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- completely erase the boot volume.
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- The current strain of the INIT 9403 virus has been found only on Macs
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- running the Italian version of the Macintosh system (so far). However, we
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- strongly urge you to protect yourself against this virus even if you do not
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- run the Italian system.
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- It appears that the virus was initially spread by an altered version of
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- some pirated software. The software, when run, installs the virus on the
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- affected system.
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- Once present, the virus alters the Finder file and may insert copies of
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- itself in various compaction, compression, and archive programs. These
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- infected files can then spread the virus to other Macintoshes.
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- The virus spreads under both System 6 and System 7.
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