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Typhoid Marilyn (9/19/98)
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AutoStart Worm infections continue to run rampant, despite relatively simple measures that can be taken to protect a Mac. The AutoStart Worm, for those of you who have been living in a cave for the last four months, is the one of the first serious virus outbreaks to hit the Mac platform in several years. (As always, we don't count all those cross-platform Microsoft Word macro viruses; after all, what did you expect?)
One particularly obvious indication that people just aren't taking this virus as seriously as they should be is the relatively high number of commercial software CD-ROMs that have shipped infected with the worm. There are several commercial titles listed on a MacInTouch page that have been discovered by readers to be carrying the worm, but there are more titles shipping every day, so the only way to be really sure about protecting your system is to scan regularly using one of the several commercial or freeware software packages that can find and destroy the worm.
That said, we found one of the AutoStart infections to be particularly apt; apparently Marilyn Manson's new CD, Mechanical Animals, is an enhanced CD, containing multimedia content accessible when the disc is inserted into a computer. Well, you guessed it-- Manson's new album is infected with the AutoStart Worm. Hey, if you had to guess which music CD's were infected just by looking at the performers, wouldn't Marilyn Manson's discs be your first choice? ;-)
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 | | The above scene was taken from the 9/19/98 episode: September 19, 1998: Apple's new PowerBooks are dressed to the nines in big, beautiful screens-- and the new ads are playing up that angle as much as possible. Meanwhile, just what happened in last week's meeting between Captain Steve and France's ministers of finance and education? And in an unrelated matter, is anyone surprised to find out that Marilyn Manson's a virus-carrier?...
Other scenes from that episode: 1026: Big and Beautiful (9/19/98) Yup, Apple's new PowerBook G3's have standardized on a 14.1-inch active-matrix screen, and Apple's being rather vocal about that fact. You may have already heard new Apple radio ads touting the luxury of the new large screen, if you happen to listen to one of the stations who aired the ad... 1027: L'Ecole d'iMac (9/19/98) Hmmm, was there more to Steve Jobs' visit to Paris than the standard keynote appearance and coroporate elbow-rubbing? Certainly he was there for Apple Expo 98, a sort of French equivalent to our own MacWorld Expo, but while he was in town, Steve reportedly met with two high-ranking members of the French government...
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