- EGABTR
EGABTR, sometimes pronounced "Eggbeater", was a Trojan horse program that achieved some level of notoriety in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Allegedly a graphics utility that would improve the quality of an
EGA display, it actually wasmalware that deleted thefile allocation table s on thehard drive . [http://www.matarese.com/matarese-files/12837/lots-warnings-about-egabtr/index.html] This deletion was accompanied by a text message reading "Arf! Arf! Got you!" [http://www.ciac.org/ciac/virdb/VIRS0387.TXT] . Various sources disagree as to the exact wording.
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