The "Marcos" Virus

[Geek King]

User calls up and in a worried tone, describes a popup he is getting while working on our remote software. In his words, "It keeps warning me about Marcos when I try to print my letters. Is this a virus I need to have you look at?".

Curious, because nothing should be able to infect the remote software server where all the work happens, I remote into his session to see what was happening.

It seems the letters in question has some macros in them, and the computer was asking permission to use them. Oi.

[draggar]

Polo!!

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[lordlundar]

You have to put that one in the definitions thread.

[dalesys]

Ferdie or Immie?

Just hit it with a shoe, it'll scurry away.

[MadonnaC]

Ferdie or Immie?

Just hit it with a shoe, it'll scurry away.

IMELDA MARCOS VIRUS: Sings you a song (slightly off key) on boot up, then subtracts money from your Quicken account and spends it all on expensive shoes it purchases through Prodigy.

[AriRashkae]

Waaaaaaay back when my grandmother had her old Mac Performa (System 7?) as an April Fool's Prank I installed "99 Bottles of Beer On The Wall" and set as many rounds in her startup as I thought I could get away with.

She thought it was funny as hell, and asked that I leave 1 round, with a low # (4 or 5, I think) so she could get a giggle.