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From: jsm@vax1.UUCP
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Subject: Trojan horses
Message-ID: <324@vax1.ccs.cornell.edu>
Date: Mon, 30-Mar-87 23:24:39 EST
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Posted: Mon Mar 30 23:24:39 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 1-Apr-87 06:07:18 EST
Reply-To: jsm@vax1.ccs.cornell.edu (Jon Meltzer)
Organization: Cornell Computer Services, Ithaca NY
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The April issue of 'Computer Language' gives a rave review , by one Tim
Parker, of a public-domain program called NOTROJ.COM. The program is
alleged to be a protection against trojan horses; Parker says that
"this superb little package should be used by anyone working with software
for the first time ".

The catch is that NOTROJ is well known in the BBS community as being ITSELF
a trojan horse; it will perform a low-level format on ones hard disk if and
only if the hard disk is over 50% full!

This is detailed in Eric Newhouse's superb list of trojan horses, DIRTYDOZ
(available on most BBS's; I'll try to get it uploaded here).

I am very angry that a national publication has, through the incompetence of
its staff, published information that will cause injury to the naive 
reader. I have written the editor about this, and suggest that all others
concerned about the trojan problem do the same.