Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!stanford.edu!agate!stew.ssl.berkeley.edu!korpela From: korpela@stew.ssl.berkeley.edu (Eric J. Korpela) Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms Subject: Re: YOURWAY.EXE virus Message-ID: <1991Mar14.185158.7690@agate.berkeley.edu> Date: 14 Mar 91 18:51:58 GMT References: <4253.27de98b2@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu> Sender: usenet@agate.berkeley.edu (USENET Administrator) Organization: Cal Berkeley-- Space Sciences Lab Lines: 27 In article <4253.27de98b2@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu> mgjones@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu (Mike (Felix) Jones) writes: >For anyone interested, I did a dump from LABTEST by Panda to see what was in >the program YOURWAY.EXE. > >This is what I got. You can see the "ha ha ha" in it a little ways down. >(I suggest getting something like labtest, it can save on BIG headaches, >especially since many virus authors leave some kind of message) > >include yourway.lbt I wish people would stop referring to YOURWAY.EXE as having a virus. From what I have heard, it sounds like YOURWAY.EXE is a Trojan. Until you hear some evidence that YOURWAY.EXE is infecting other EXE files call it a Trojan. A little proper terminology can save a lot of trouble. A person who steps on a mine isn't killed by biological warfare. As far as I know, no Windows virii exist. The discovery of a Windows virus would be important because a virus is potentially much more dangerous than a trojan. That is because virii spread, trojans don't. That make a big difference when it comes to prevention. /\ korpela@ssl.berkeley.edu Internet /__\ rioch BKYAST::KORPELA 42215::KORPELA DecNet / \ of Chaos korpela%bkyast@ucbjade Bitnet (_____________________