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From: kfk9673@ritcv.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Trojan horses
Message-ID: <210@ritcv.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 31-Mar-87 10:52:06 EST
Article-I.D.: ritcv.210
Posted: Tue Mar 31 10:52:06 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 2-Apr-87 05:17:35 EST
References: <324@vax1.ccs.cornell.edu>
Reply-To: kfk9673@ritcv.UUCP (Karl KIngston)
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY
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In article <324@vax1.ccs.cornell.edu> jsm@vax1.ccs.cornell.edu (Jon Meltzer) writes:
>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. 

I read an article in PC Week last summer and it mentioned that the people
who created the SoftGuard protection scheme have created a trojan horse that
would destroy a disk if the "trojan" was used to remove the SoftGuard
protection from a program.


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