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From: frisk@rhi.hi.is (Fridrik Skulason)
Newsgroups: comp.virus
Subject: Re: "Horse" Virus Family (PC)
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Date: 25 May 91 09:02:39 GMT
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I wrote:
>> Horse (Hacker, Black horse) family:
William Walker C60223 x4570 writes:

>To further reduce naming confusion, might I suggest calling this
>family the "Hacker" family ("Hacker-1," etc.) to avoid confusion with
>Trojan Horses.

I considered this, but decided to use the name "Horse" instead - the
author, Martin Harizanov, uses the handle "The Horse", and there is
already another virus known as "Hacker" (alias "Ohio") as well as one
known as "Superhacker" (alias "Jerk").  Using "Hacker" would just
increase the confusion, instead of reducing it.

- -frisk