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Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 195

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 195. Here are my solutions to them.

1: Don’t let your Mac catch one of these discovered in the 1890s.

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virus

Don’t let your Mac catch one of these (a computer virus) discovered in the 1890s (the first virus to be discovered was the tobacco mosaic virus, in 1892-98).

2: Legendary horse to trick you into trouble.

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Trojan

Legendary horse (the wooden horse of Troy) to trick you into trouble (what it aims to do).

3: Whelp really isn’t as attractive as it might seem.

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PUP

Whelp (a pup) really isn’t as attractive as it might seem (a ‘probably unwanted program’, malicious software such as nasty adware).

The common factor

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They are all types of malware.

I look forward to your putting alternative cases.