Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!ub!dsinc!netnews.upenn.edu!vax1.cc.lehigh.edu!cert.sei.cmu.edu!krvw From: pjd@hpuxa.ircc.ohio-state.edu (Peter J. Dotzauer) Newsgroups: comp.virus Subject: found '12 Tricks Trojan' - what is it? Message-ID: <0005.9008131823.AA10141@ubu.cert.sei.cmu.edu> Date: 11 Aug 90 02:04:02 GMT Sender: Virus Discussion List Lines: 17 Approved: krvw@sei.cmu.edu The program 'scan' found a virus, '12 Tricks Trojan [Tricks]' in a public domain utility called 'superdir.com' (that gives you a sorted list of all files in all directories). The virus was in the program when it was freshly downloaded from a local BBS. What does that virus do? Is it safe to use the program from a floppy while the hard disk is temporarily write-protected by another utility? It would be nice to have a clean copy of that program, but I could not remove the virus, and I couldn't find a clean copy on a local BBS. - -=- Peter Dotzauer, Analyt.Cart.& GIS, Dept.of Geogr., OSU, Columbus, OH 43210-1361 TEL +1 614 292 1357 FAX +1 614 292 6213 FIDO 1:226/330 CCnet mapvxa::pjd INTERNET pjd+@osu.edu |ace for rent...this space for rent...this space f| BITNET pjd@ohstvmb UUCP ...!osu-cis!hpuxa.ircc.ohio-state.edu!pjd