both System 6 and System 7.

some systems, it does not spread at all. It does, however, spread under

For technical reasons, the virus does not infect some applications, and on



processor like the Mac Plus, SE, and Classic.

problems. In particular, it causes crashes on Macintoshes with the 68000

The virus contains many errors which can cause crashes and other



displayed again.

October 31, 1993. After this message has been displayed once, it is not

first time an infected Macintosh is restarted after 6:06:06 A.M. on

The virus displays the message “From the depths of Cyberspace” the



infect document files.

The virus infects both the System file and application files. It does not



1993.

The INIT 17 virus was discovered in New Brunswick, Canada, in April,




xThe INIT 17 Virus