Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!rutgers!sdcsvax!ucbvax!LEHIIBM1.BITNET!LUKEN From: LUKEN@LEHIIBM1.BITNET ("Kenneth R. van Wyk") Newsgroups: comp.sys.zenith.z100 Subject: Re: Trogan Horse in rogue COMMAND.COM Message-ID: <8801042138.AA03694@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> Date: 4 Jan 88 21:30:52 GMT References: Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 25 The trojan horse COMMAND.COM which I wrote about *WAS* able to infect a Z-100 COMMAND.COM (MSDOS 2.1, and 3.1)! It was not isolated to PCs only! I sent that warning out to ADVISE-L on BITNET over a month ago, and it's been reprinted all over the world, and I continue to get dozens of calls and inquiries about it. Virus programs are the creations of sick people, and must be stopped. We, here at Lehigh, lost hundreds of disks worth of data on *OUR* disks - not counting how many of our users lost their own data. This particular virus was easy to stop because the programmer was sloppy. Lets hope that the next one is too. By the way, COMMAND.COM is the machine independent module of MS-DOS, so it runs on both Z-100's and PC's. Ken ------------------------------------------------------------------------ = Kenneth R. van Wyk = If found wandering aimlessly, = = User Services Senior Consultant = please feed and return... = = Lehigh University Computing Center =-------------------------------= = Internet: = That's the news, = = BITNET: = And I'm out of here! = ------------------------------------------------------------------------