Today's Topics:
Barry's Bug
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Date: Wed, 3 Jun 92 16:06:22 -0400
From: Eric Haines <erich@eye.com>
Message-Id: <9206032006.AA24385@hemlock>
To: subgenius@media-lab.media.mit.edu
Subject: Barry's Bug
Cc: erich@hemlock.eye.com
>From Communications of the ACM, June 1992 (vol.35, no.6), page 10:
Barry's Bug...
Viruses, as we all know, can play strange and frightening games with
computer-based data. Now, "Computing" magazine has reported a new strain that
plays some strange, and yes, frightening music. It's called the Barry Manilow
Virus - a phantom bug that's infiltrating a growing number of computer systems,
scaring users with such tunes as "Mandy" and "Copacabana." The virus is a
collection from the singer's "Greatest Hits" album. Once detonated, the virus
spins out a continuous stream of Manilow's million sellers. Experts are
working feverishly on an antidote for this plague.
-- Eric
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