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- From: rslade@cue.bc.ca (Rob Slade)
- Subject: New virus report: "Ryan Erik Hoff"
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.214813.13497@softwords.bc.ca>
- Sender: news@softwords.bc.ca (CNews)
- Nntp-Posting-Host: cue.bc.ca
- Organization: Computer Using Educators of B.C., Canada
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 92 21:48:13 GMT
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- Entry...............: "Ryan Erik Hoff"
- Alias...............: Dave, "El Gargantuo"
- Strain..............: Furneaux/Meeter/Slade/Hoff
- Detected when.......: 921227 2058H
- where......: Royal Columbian Hospital, New Westminster, BC, Canada
- (there are indications that it originated in
- neighbouring Port Moody :-)
- Clssification.......: Although others in strain have been viral, this may be a
- "dropper"
- Length of virus.....: 6.25 3 1/2" disk widths
- ------------------------Preconditions---------------------------------
- Operating System(s).: All current and future, hopefully :-)
- Version\Release.....: as above
- Computer models.....: as above, and his other grandfather and I are agreed
- that he should also be able to sail by the age of two
- -------------------------Attributes-----------------------------------
- Easy identification.: his father's head shape, and his mother's furrowed brow
- Infection Trigger...: Well, see, when you grow up, you start to feel ...
- Media affected......: I haven't been online at all for four days
- Interrupts hooked...: Everything on Saturday night and Sunday
- Damage..............: The integrity shell of the carrier program had to be
- broken during disinfection. There were initial
- indications of serious damage, but the carrier
- program has proven capable of self-repair.
- Damage trigger......: Reverse placement
- Particularities.....: Extraordinary size (4345 gm)
- Similarities........: Red, sleeps and cries a lot
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
- Countermeasures.....: None yet attempted. Likely never will :-)
- -----------------------Acknowledgements-------------------------------
- Location............: V.I.R.U.S., Vancouver, BC, Canada
- Classification by...: all grandparents
- Documentation by....: Grandpa
- Date................: 921230
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