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Festering Hate

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Festering Hate (also known as hate) and CyberAIDS are the names of the first two Apple ProDOS viruses. CyberAIDS appears to have been a series of viruses with minor changes in the code, culminating in the final version called Festering Hate, which appeared in 1988 (The Festering Hate World Tour - Festering Hate in '88). When the virus went off, the title page credited "Rancid Grapefruit" and "Cereal Killer" of the "Kool/Rad Alliance!" The phone number embedded in the detonation page was apparently the home number of John Maxfield (also known as "Cable Pair") a well-known FBI informant and private investigator of the era, whose specialty was computer crime and hackers. Unlike the few Apple viruses that had come before, such as the Elk Cloner virus, that were essentially annoying but did no damage, the Festering Hate series of viruses was extremely destructive, spreading to all system files it could find on the host computer (hard drive, floppy and system memory) and then destroying everything when it could no longer find any uninfected files. [1]

32 relations: Antivirus software, Apple II, Apple ProDOS, Bruce Fancher, Bulletin board system, Computer virus, Copyright infringement, Cybercrime, Dave Buchwald, Easter egg (media), Elk Cloner, Eric Corley, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Glen Bredon, Hackers (film), IMDb, Legion of Doom (hacking), MindVox, Morgan Davis, Nicholas Jarecki, Patrick K. Kroupa, Rafael Moreu, Security hacker, Shareware, Software cracking, Subculture, Telecommunication, Trojan horse (computing), Usenet, Warez, William Gibson, 2600: The Hacker Quarterly.

Antivirus software

Antivirus software, or anti-virus software (abbreviated to AV software), also known as anti-malware, is a computer program used to prevent, detect, and remove malware.

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Apple II

The Apple II (stylized as Apple.

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Apple ProDOS

ProDOS is the name of two similar operating systems for the Apple II series of personal computers.

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Bruce Fancher

Bruce Fancher (also known as Timberwolf) (born April 13, 1971) is a former computer hacker and member of the notable Legion of Doom hacker group.

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Bulletin board system

A bulletin board system or BBS (also called Computer Bulletin Board Service, CBBS) is a computer server running software that allows users to connect to the system using a terminal program.

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Computer virus

A computer virus is a type of malicious software program ("malware") that, when executed, replicates itself by modifying other computer programs and inserting its own code.

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Copyright infringement

Copyright infringement is the use of works protected by copyright law without permission, infringing certain exclusive rights granted to the copyright holder, such as the right to reproduce, distribute, display or perform the protected work, or to make derivative works.

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Cybercrime

Cybercrime, or computer oriented crime, is crime that involves a computer and a network.

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Dave Buchwald

Filmmaker Dave Buchwald, once known as Bill From RNOC (born September 4, 1970) was a phone phreak, hacker, and leader of the Legion of Doom in the mid-1980s.

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Easter egg (media)

In computer software and media, an Easter egg is an intentional inside joke, hidden message or image, or secret feature of a work.

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Elk Cloner

Elk Cloner is one of the first known microcomputer viruses that spread "in the wild", i.e., outside the computer system or laboratory in which it was written.

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Eric Corley

Eric Gordon Corley (born December 16, 1959), also frequently referred to by his pen name of Emmanuel Goldstein, is a figure in the hacker community.

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Federal Bureau of Investigation

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), formerly the Bureau of Investigation (BOI), is the domestic intelligence and security service of the United States, and its principal federal law enforcement agency.

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Glen Bredon

Glen Eugene Bredon (August 24, 1932 in Fresno, California – May 8, 2000) was an American mathematician who worked in the area of topology.

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Hackers (film)

Hackers is a 1995 American crime film directed by Iain Softley and starring Jonny Lee Miller, Angelina Jolie, Renoly Santiago, Laurence Mason, Matthew Lillard, Jesse Bradford, Lorraine Bracco, and Fisher Stevens.

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IMDb

IMDb, also known as Internet Movie Database, is an online database of information related to world films, television programs, home videos and video games, and internet streams, including cast, production crew and personnel biographies, plot summaries, trivia, and fan reviews and ratings.

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Legion of Doom (hacking)

The Legion of Doom (LOD) was a hacker group active from the 1980s to the late 1990s and early 2000.

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MindVox

MindVox was a famed early Internet service provider in New York City.

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Morgan Davis

Morgan Davis is an award-winning Canadian blues singer, guitarist, and songwriter.

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Nicholas Jarecki

Nicholas Jarecki (born June 25, 1979) is an American film director, producer, and writer best known for his 2012 feature film Arbitrage.

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Patrick K. Kroupa

Patrick Karel Kroupa (also known as Lord Digital, born January 20, 1969) is an American writer, hacker and activist.

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Rafael Moreu

Rafael Moreu was the writer of the movies ''Hackers'' (1995) and The Rage: Carrie 2 (1999).

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Security hacker

A security hacker is someone who seeks to breach defenses and exploit weaknesses in a computer system or network.

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Shareware

Shareware is a type of proprietary software which is initially provided free of charge to users, who are allowed and encouraged to make and share copies of the program.

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Software cracking

Software cracking (known as "breaking" in the 1980s) is the modification of software to remove or disable features which are considered undesirable by the person cracking the software, especially copy protection features (including protection against the manipulation of software, serial number, hardware key, date checks and disc check) or software annoyances like nag screens and adware.

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Subculture

A subculture is a group of people within a culture that differentiates itself from the parent culture to which it belongs, often maintaining some of its founding principles.

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Telecommunication

Telecommunication is the transmission of signs, signals, messages, words, writings, images and sounds or information of any nature by wire, radio, optical or other electromagnetic systems.

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Trojan horse (computing)

In computing, a Trojan horse, or Trojan, is any malicious computer program which misleads users of its true intent.

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Usenet

Usenet is a worldwide distributed discussion system available on computers.

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Warez

Warez is a common computing and broader cultural term referring to pirated software (i.e. illegally copied, often after deactivation of anti-piracy measures) that is distributed via the Internet.

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William Gibson

William Ford Gibson (born March 17, 1948) is an American-Canadian speculative fiction writer and essayist widely credited with pioneering the science fiction subgenre known as cyberpunk.

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2600: The Hacker Quarterly

2600: The Hacker Quarterly is an American seasonal publication of technical information and articles, many of which are written and submitted by the readership, on a variety of subjects including hacking, telephone switching systems, Internet protocols and services, as well as general news concerning the computer "underground".

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CyberAIDS, Cyberaids.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Festering_Hate

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