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From: farren@gethen.UUCP (Michael J. Farren)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sources.wanted
Subject: Re: pkxarc wanted
Message-ID: <795@gethen.UUCP>
Date: 13 Mar 88 19:06:08 GMT
References: <1053@ur-tut.UUCP> <465@sun.soe.clarkson.edu> <731@gethen.UUCP> <5297@swan.ulowell.edu>
Reply-To: farren@gethen.UUCP (Michael J. Farren)
Organization: There's Unix there in Oakland
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In article <5297@swan.ulowell.edu> boneill@hawk.ulowell.edu (SoftXc Coordinator) writes:
>In article <731@gethen.UUCP> farren@gethen.UUCP I wrote:
>>No, be sure you are posting PKX35B35.EXE, which is the absolute latest
>>stuff, and fixes some small bugs.
>
>NO!!!!! Absolutely do NOT post PKX35B35.EXE!!!! It is a Trojan program
>circulating around BBS's that destroys the FAT of disks.

A word of explanation:  when I made the above posting, I was unaware of
the existence of a Trojan PKARC.  The version that I've been using, 
PKX35B35, was downloaded from a local BBS system which maintains very
tight control over it's downloads.  I've NEVER downloaded a Trojan from
there, and likely never will.  PKX35B35.EXE, *as I received it*, works fine.
That does NOT mean that there are no Trojan versions out there, and a call to
Phil Katz's BBS system confirmed that there is NO PKX35B35 authorized
by him, so I would have to agree - do not use PKX35B35.EXE, as you may
not get a version as benign as the one I got.  I've removed PKX35B35.EXE
from my BBS as a precaution.

My apologies for the confusion - I did NOT post the above with malicious
intent, simply a bit of ignorance of the global situation.  Thanks to 
those who pointed out my error; we need to combat this crap anywhere
we find it.  No thanks, though, to those who sent hate mail.

-- 
Michael J. Farren             | "INVESTIGATE your point of view, don't just 
{ucbvax, uunet, hoptoad}!     | dogmatize it!  Reflect on it and re-evaluate
        unisoft!gethen!farren | it.  You may want to change your mind someday."
gethen!farren@lll-winken.llnl.gov ----- Tom Reingold, from alt.flame