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unexplained behavior.
also several bugs in Scores that could cause system crashes or other
have reported problems printing and using MacDraw and Excel. There are
disk space, however, and this can cause problems all by itself. People
itself and attack the two specific programs. It does occupy memory and
Scores does not intentionally try to do any damage other than to spread
infection.
become infected. For technical reasons, some programs are immune to
after you begin the program. The Finder and DA Handler usually also
each application you run. The infection occurs between 2 and 3 minutes
Two days after your system becomes infected, Scores begins to spread to
Scores gets its name from the invisible ΓÇ£ScoresΓÇ¥ file that it creates.
system files.
Scores does not infect or modify document filesΓÇöonly applications and
the end of its name.
system folder. Also, ScoresΓÇÖ Desktop file has an extra space character at
outside the system folder, while ScoresΓÇÖ Desktop file lives inside the
each other. The FinderΓÇÖs Desktop file lives at the root level on your disk,
file with the FinderΓÇÖs invisible Desktop fileΓÇöthey have nothing to do with
or some other utility program. Do not confuse ScoresΓÇÖ invisible Desktop
and ΓÇ£Desktop ΓÇ¥. You cannot see invisible files without the aid of ResEdit
also creates two invisible files in your system folder named ΓÇ£ScoresΓÇ¥
Scores infects your System, Note Pad, and Scrapbook system files. It
normal icons.
Disinfectant to make certain your system is not infected, even if you have
Pad and Scrapbook icons. Consequently, we recommend running
It is possible to be partially infected by Scores and still have normal Note
infected by Scores.
sheets of paper with turned-down corners, your software has been
They should look like little Macintoshes. If they look instead like blank
system folder and check the icons for the Note Pad and Scrapbook files.
There is an easy way to see if you have a Scores infection. Open your
discovered in the Spring of 1988.
programs was ever released to the general public. Scores was first
development at his former company. Fortunately, neither of the two
programmer. It specifically attacks two programs that were under
According to news reports, the Scores virus was written by a disgruntled
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The Scores Virus