EGABTR
EGABTR (EGA for enhanced graphics adapter),[1] sometimes pronounced "Eggbeater", was a Trojan horse program[2] that achieved some level of notoriety in the late 1980s and early 1990s.[3][4][5][6][7] Allegedly a graphics utility that would improve the quality of an EGA display, it actually was malware that deleted the file allocation tables on the hard drive.[8][9][3] This deletion was accompanied by a text message reading "Arf! Arf! Got you!".[10][6][11] Coverage about this virus has translated in languages such as German, Chinese and Indonesian.[12] Various sources disagree as to the exact wording.
In the 1980s, Richard Streeter, a CBS executive,[13] once downloaded the Trojan virus, learned about EGABTR after visiting electronic Bulletin boards, hoping to find something to improve his operating system and unknowingly downloaded the virus.[14]
References
- ↑ Computer Language, Volume 4. 1987. https://books.google.com/books?id=HotVAAAAMAAJ&q=EGABTR. Retrieved September 25, 2015.
- ↑ Kershner, Helene G. (1992). Computer Literacy. D. C. Heath. p. 240. ISBN 978-0669279986. https://books.google.com/books?id=TY5YAAAAYAAJ. Retrieved September 24, 2015.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Poundstone, William (1989). Bigger Secrets: More Than 125 Things They Prayed You'd Never Find Out. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. p. 166. ISBN 978-0395530085. https://books.google.com/books?id=Twr1KAGlgDUC. Retrieved September 25, 2015.
- ↑ Emmerson, Andrew (January 28, 1988). "Phantoms of the operating system". New Scientist 117 (1597): 69. https://books.google.com/books?id=4tKSYkNGPVcC&pg=PA69. Retrieved 23 September 2015.
- ↑ Omni, Volume 8. Omni Publications International. 1986. p. 35. https://books.google.com/books?id=Lt1NAQAAIAAJ. Retrieved September 25, 2015.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Introduction to Computer Literacy. D. C. Heath Publishing Company. 1990. p. 399. ISBN 978-0669095609. https://archive.org/details/introductiontoco0000kers. Retrieved September 25, 2015.
- ↑ Kane, Pamela; Hopkins, Andy (1993). The data recovery bible: preventing and surviving computer crashes. Brady Publishing. ISBN 978-1566860802. https://books.google.com/books?id=QOZQAAAAMAAJ. Retrieved September 25, 2015.
- ↑ "Lots of warnings about EGABTR.EXE". www.matarese.com. http://www.matarese.com/matarese-files/12837/lots-warnings-about-egabtr/index.html.
- ↑ Malware History from BitDefender
- ↑ "VIRS0387". http://www.ciac.org/ciac/virdb/VIRS0387.TXT.
- ↑ "Warning!". PC Magazine 4 (15): 34. July 23, 1985. https://books.google.com/books?id=Dwvc24nC0IQC&pg=PA33. Retrieved 23 September 2015.
- ↑ Google Books results
- ↑ "Nation and World News". Chicago Tribune. August 16, 1985. http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1985/08/16/page/3/article/nation-world.
- ↑ Berke, Joseph H. (1988). The tyranny of malice: exploring the dark side of character and culture. Summit Books. p. 238. ISBN 978-0671497538. https://archive.org/details/tyrannyofmalicee00berk. Retrieved September 25, 2015.
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