Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!daemon
From: tom@mims-iris.waterloo.edu (Tom Haapanen)
Subject: Re: Possible Virus in cica.cica.indiana.edu
Message-ID: <1990Nov2.130136.16906@watserv1.waterloo.edu>
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Organization: University of Waterloo, WATMIMS Research Group
References: <1990Oct30.200205.1245@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> <886@venice.SEDD.TRW.COM>
Date: Fri, 2 Nov 90 13:01:36 GMT
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Frank E. Bien <bien@venice.sedd.trw.com> writes:
> [disk problems possibly caused by curse.exe]

Well, I have two datapoints:

First, scanv67 doesn't think there is a virus in curse.exe.  From this,
my own experience, and the postings on the net, I would conclude that
curse.exe does not contain a virus.

Second, after I downloaded curse.exe (quite a while ago), I have used
curse.exe on two occasions, separated by several months.  About a month
after I used it the first time, I found that my E: drive had piles of
crosslinked files and lost clusters.  I didn't make the connection here,
but I eventually ran curse.exe again, and again the disk was messed up.
(Not fatally but enough to be a pain.)  There have also been several
references on the net to it fooling around with the FAT, so I think
that it *is* a malicious nasty evil program.  :)

Could we either remove it from cica, or at least have a warning added to
the .zip file about damage possibly caused by using curse.exe?

[ \tom haapanen --- university of waterloo --- tom@mims-iris.waterloo.edu ]
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