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From: dksnsr@nmtsun.nmt.edu (Dr. Mosh)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Self-Dearchiving
Message-ID: <3978@nmtsun.nmt.edu>
Date: 16 Mar 90 09:32:41 GMT
References: <14014@snow-white.udel.EDU> <90074.233013JKT100@psuvm.psu.edu>
Reply-To: dksnsr@nmtsun.nmt.edu (Dr. Mosh)
Organization: New Mexico Tech, Socorro NM
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In article <90074.233013JKT100@psuvm.psu.edu> JKT100@psuvm.psu.edu (JKT) writes:
>Yes, you COULD hide a trojan horse in the dearchiving code.  BUT,
>is there not moderation on the areas where such archivers are
>available?  In other words, is anything posted to an FTP site
[trimmed]

Yes, but a lot of public domain/shareware also goes around on un-moderated
BBS's and sometimes even disks through public domain/shareware vendors...

-Dino Khoe
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