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.this is a copy of the warnings:
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.
I recommend
to delete these files if you receive them as e-mail attachments.
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