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 the original files can be considered as harmless jokes, but there is a possibility that there may well be tampered versions that could be infected by a virus (of course this could be any file infector) . Below are PKZip/WinZip CRCs of the known clean versions:
Length CRC-32 Name
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671050 f36b4c7c BLENDER.EXE
341331 af1bed17 FISH.EXE
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The 'Frog Blender' is a rather tasteless animation that displays a frog in a blender. The user can select the blenders speed to see what happens to the frog.
The 'Fish' is another rather tasteless animation which shows a fish in an aquarium and a number of objects that can be used to effect the fish: poison, electric shock, heat, bomb and others.
For the moment I would recommend that if you receive these executables as e-mail attachments, that you might be wise to delete them. |