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Overview

This is a virus detection. Viruses are programs that self-replicate recursively, meaning that infected systems spread the virus to other systems, which then propagate the virus further. While many viruses contain a destructive payload, it's quite common for viruses to do nothing more than spread from one system to another.

Aliases

• Aladin

Characteristics

The Frankie virus infects only Macintosh emulators, like Atari, NOT Macintosh computers. The Frankie virus and its desciption are included only for completeness.

The virus intercepts 'OpenRF' and 'SetFileInfo' system traps.

The Frankie virus was deliberately created and distibuted in a document transfer utility by Aladin producer Proficomp. The ostensible purpose of the virus was to attack a pirated version of Aladin. However, since the virus is designed to attack all Mac emulators on the Atari other then Aladin, one may well question Proficomp's motives.

Symptoms

When activated, the virus will draw an icon of a bomb and then display the message: "Frankie says: No more piracy!" and then it will cause the system to crash.

Method of Infection

Removal

Please use the latest updates of Virex for cleaning. If this threat is detected on a Macintosh please use Virex to repair it.

If the infected object was found on a non-Apple file server it can be cleaned using Virex from a Macintosh client.

Infected Emails (usually in BinHex format) will be currently either deleted or quarantined depending on the configuration of mail scanner. Quarantined mails should be transferred to a Macintosh and cleaned using Virex.

Variants

Variants

N/A

All Information

Overview -

This is a virus detection. Viruses are programs that self-replicate recursively, meaning that infected systems spread the virus to other systems, which then propagate the virus further. While many viruses contain a destructive payload, it's quite common for viruses to do nothing more than spread from one system to another.

Aliases

• Aladin

Characteristics

Characteristics -

The Frankie virus infects only Macintosh emulators, like Atari, NOT Macintosh computers. The Frankie virus and its desciption are included only for completeness.

The virus intercepts 'OpenRF' and 'SetFileInfo' system traps.

The Frankie virus was deliberately created and distibuted in a document transfer utility by Aladin producer Proficomp. The ostensible purpose of the virus was to attack a pirated version of Aladin. However, since the virus is designed to attack all Mac emulators on the Atari other then Aladin, one may well question Proficomp's motives.

Symptoms

Symptoms -

When activated, the virus will draw an icon of a bomb and then display the message: "Frankie says: No more piracy!" and then it will cause the system to crash.

Method of Infection

Method of Infection -

Removal -

Removal -

Please use the latest updates of Virex for cleaning. If this threat is detected on a Macintosh please use Virex to repair it.

If the infected object was found on a non-Apple file server it can be cleaned using Virex from a Macintosh client.

Infected Emails (usually in BinHex format) will be currently either deleted or quarantined depending on the configuration of mail scanner. Quarantined mails should be transferred to a Macintosh and cleaned using Virex.

Variants

Variants -

N/A