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From: komatsu@ALCOR.USC.EDU ("-----> Dave")
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Edit Trojan ?
Summary: Reposted by Keith Petersen
Message-ID: <9106072032.AA00486@oak.oakland.edu>
Date: 7 Jun 91 09:33:37 GMT
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duplain@rtf.bt.co.uk (Andy Duplain) writes:
> 	After unpacking EDIT from ibm.binaries.ibm.pc I discovered sometime
> 	later that it possibly had a 'Evil-Dropper Trojan' in EDIT.EXE..
> 	(As according to Dr Solomons Virus Toolkit)... Is this just me or
> 	DOES edit have this Trojan for real ???

For our record, EDIT.EXE left our Honolulu Location is perfect
condition. We verified this file to be intact, minus any unauthorized
modification, while sitting in temporary storage on unix. This means,
your copy of EDIT.EXE got infected with the 'Evil-Dropper Trojan' some
where between our holding site and your final destination.

Furthermore all files leaving the comp.binaries queue are virus
checked by the moderator prior to posting.

Also a new version the corrects some memory allocation problems found
on various machines.  Please be looking for Edit 2.51 shortly.


Dale Chun (dchun@aludra.usc.edu)
David Komatsu (komatsu@alcor.usc.edu)