Apple ][ worms

[dalloff@freenet.columbus.oh.us (Dave Althoff)]

(I figure that Apples get worms, not viruses!)

I have seen a grand total of

          *1*

worms for the Apple ][.  This was a little patch to DOS 3.3 which would
recopy DOS onto any bootable DOS disk.  The outward manifestation of this
was that the catalog header ("DISK VOLUME nnn") of the viral operating
system had been changed to "LEE'S DISC".  This managed to replicate itself
onto many many disks in my high-school computer lab, but it never infected
my collection, since I always cold-booted computers from my own (clean)
disks.  I never did find any other effect of the "Lee's Disc" virus.  I
did intentionally infect a disk so that I could study it, but I think I
accidentally updated that disk with Pronto-DOS, so it's gone now.

Incidentally, the solution to eradicating the above virus is to run MASTER
CREATE or otherwise copy a clean DOS onto the infected disks.

--Dave Althoff, Jr.
(Yup.  To avoid viruses, get an Apple ][.  Not a Macintosh, though...WDEF
has a nasty habit of showing up and blowing data!)