You are not going crazy, it's real.

I concur with 99% of what you have written, it's the same thing, (I have Macs, System 7 - OS X 10.4.x)

See my previous post above - I'm coming late to this thread.

This has been around a long time, I first found it (fought it in '97).

Most recently '05, I'm sure it's still on (all) my machines.

Yes, it's cross-platform, with an insidiously wicked sense of humour, not to discount the seriousness of this thread and several of our predicaments (mine included), but that's how I'm able to identify it as the same (group?) as the attack in '97.

I think it's a serious problem for (US-World) national security (unless, of corse it *is* "national security".

"The trojan has controllers on the universal power supply."

Which elevates it to "logic bomb" status, I've lost monitors, graphic cards.

If you get too close it soft-power shutdowns your ass. (which is stunning).

Complete control (IMHO).

"... sometimes it lets you think that you are winning, only to find out after hours of hard work that it was a nasty joke played on you."

Exactly.

"Rules as we know them, are no longer are applied."

I believe it places microcode on closed (previously burned) CDs, DVDs, etc. it tags everything, thats why you can't rid yourself of it.

Hardware trumps root.

No, you're not crazy.

Question is, what are (we?) you going to do about it?

I'm been trying to get attention about this for almost 10 years.

hylas

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