http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/L/lamer.html
I distinctly remember loading one of my data files into a hex editor and finding the word LAMER! in it. That's when I worked out what was going on. I think the virus sits on the bootblock but it does it's dirty work on the rest of the disk.
[EDIT] Here's the full lowdown:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamer_Exterminator
This term seems to have originated in the Commodore-64 scene in the mid 1980s. It was popularized among Amiga crackers of the mid-1980s by ‘Lamer Exterminator’, the most famous and feared Amiga virus ever, which gradually corrupted non-write-protected floppy disks with bad sectors. The bad sectors, when looked at, were overwritten with repetitions of the string “LAMER!”.
I distinctly remember loading one of my data files into a hex editor and finding the word LAMER! in it. That's when I worked out what was going on. I think the virus sits on the bootblock but it does it's dirty work on the rest of the disk.
[EDIT] Here's the full lowdown:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamer_Exterminator