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From: cpt.k9@netmbx.UUCP (Bob George)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: WARNING on FILETEST suite WARNING WARNING
Message-ID: <1679@netmbx.UUCP>
Date: 8 Apr 88 07:18:56 GMT
References: <225@unsvax.UUCP> <1069@maynard.BSW.COM>
Reply-To: cpt.k9@netmbx.UUCP (Bob George)
Followup-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Organization: netmbx Public Access Unix, Berlin
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In article <1069@maynard.BSW.COM> campbell@maynard.UUCP (Larry Campbell) writes:
>In article <225@unsvax.UUCP> tlhingan@unsvax.uucp (Eugene Tramaglino) writes:
[...SHORT excerpt from original posting deleted...]
><>FILEREAD.COM, FluShot3 sent a message that a "write to COMMAND.COM"
><>was being performed.  
>Give me a break!  You said you had the SOURCES to this program!!  Are your
>eyes broken?  Before wasting net bandwidth and perhaps needlessly alarming
>hundreds of people, why don't you just take a look at the source and see
>if there's a legitimate reason for what it's doing?  And how about compiling
>the source and comparing the result to the binaries that came with it?

Er, if the entire article is reviewed, he DID state that it might no be
a problem but that he was alarmed at having received the warning from
what is, after all, a Trojan detector. Actually, I'd rather have false
alarms than not know about one ahead of time.

As to not reviewing sources and compiling the program, could it be that
not everyone HAS the correct compiler on hand? I've not seen the sources
myself, but I know that it's not always easy to tell at first glance what
exactly a program does even if you've got the sources...

While I'm sure the program is harmless, has anybody WHO HAS compiled,
tested and reviewed the program explained WHY this message is received?
I'd rather not chastize someone for telling us the alarm bells are going
off, even if it IS a false alarm this time!

If anything is to criticized, it is perhaps the Subject line rather than
the actual content. Alerting users to such situations is not what I'd 
consider waste of bandwidth. Thanks for the advisory Eugene.
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