Hoax Warnings


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NAME:	Frog and Fish warnings
ALIAS:	Frog in Blender, Fish

The 'Frog Blender' and 'Fish' applications are created with Shockwave Flash and present user-controlled animations. Some time ago there appeared a warning concerning these 2 files. Here's what it looks like:

 Please be informed that the joke regarding the frog being
 splattered in a blender and the fish joke (FISH.EXE and
 BLENDER.EXE) are suspected to be infected with virus,  which
 will activate on 28 May 99.

 These 2 viruses are NOT found in the HOAX list. With the vendor
 advice please delete these 2 files immediately if you have them
 in your hardisk.

Both files can be considered to be jokes but there's a threat that they could be infected by a virus (not especially the one that activates on May 28, 1999) upon distribution. Here are CRCs of clean files:

 Length  CRC-32    Name
 ------  --------  -----------
 671050  f36b4c7c  BLENDER.EXE
 341331  af1bed17  FISH.EXE
 ------  --------  -----------

The 'Frog Blender' animation displays a frog in a blender and allows a user to select speeds of blender and to see what happens to a frog. On the 9th speed pictures are rather disturbing.

The 'Fish' animation shows a fish in an aquarium and a number of objects to be applied to it - poison, electric shock, heat, bomb and some others. If a bomb is selected pictures are again disturbing.

We would recommend to delete these files if you receive them as e-mail attachments.