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My true cookie story

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From: RLE100
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 1989 01:03
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For those of you who doubt, this is first hand...

In early 1986, when I was but a wee lad just starting in computers, someone
got an exec file circulating around PSUVM.  Finding it in my readerfile one
day, and not knowing any better, I ran it.  From then on, after every couple
commands, a message would come up demanding a cookie.  After consulting an
operator, I learned that I had no choice but to respond by typing "cookie".
If you didn't feed it, it eventually locked up your terminal and you would
have to get an operator to bump you off the system.  The demands for cookies,
would get more and more insistent, and after 14 or 15 times it would say:
"Just one more, please...".  After giving it that last cookie, it would say:
"Thanks, I'm full now.  Bye!" and be gone.  I agree that this was a fun little
virus, or whatever you want to call it.  Too bad they aren't all like that...

---Bob Eichler (RLE100 @ PSUVM)
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Date: 14 Dec 89 01:03:50 GMT
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