We nailed TGOS! (Was: Re: Bow before your new ruler)
Screwtape
out that it does *NOT* detect a virus, it just puts a bazillion error
messages up on the screen, possibly crashing your computer.
Followups set to a.f.d-a.
m_init(): spawning followupTo('News Administrator')...done.
><script LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
This piece of evil is written in Javascipt.
>function tgos()
>{
K&R style indenting. Interesting.
> while (true)
While "true" is true... i.e. forever..
> window.alert("** WARNING ** VirusScan has detected the TGOS virus on your hard drive. If you have recently opened an email or newsgroup message and see this alert your system is infected.")
..pop up a false and misleading message.
>}
></script>
></head>
><body onLoad="tgos()">
As soon as this message loads launch the attack function above.
Remember, folks - don't use newsreaders that can understand HTML! It's
not worth the pain!
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