Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!watdcsu!tknight
From: tknight@watdcsu.waterloo.edu (T.Knight - Computing Services)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: PLANETS.COM
Summary: Pirated Software, Virus ??
Message-ID: <4435@watdcsu.waterloo.edu>
Date: 19 Feb 88 13:40:37 GMT
Reply-To: tknight@watdcsu.waterloo.edu (T.Knight - Computing Services)
Distribution: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Organization: U. of Waterloo, Ontario
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   A few days ago someone was asking for source to PLANETS.COM that was
posted recently. I just ran PLANETS through CHK4BOMB and found a
"Copyright 1985 Borland Inc." message in it. When you invoke PLANETS
it displays the message "PLANETS V3.0 is a Public Domain Program". Looks
like someone's doing a little piracy.
 
  Perhaps one of our virus experts could check it out to see if whoever
removed the copyright message added a few undocumented features, like disk
formats, etc. Anyway its definitely pirated software that's been altered
so use at your own risk, both physical and moral !!.
 
Fred Widall
DP70@WATDCS.NETNORTH