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From: andy@cbmvax.UUCP (Andy Finkel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Another visit to the guru...
Message-ID: <5938@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 9 Feb 89 16:50:09 GMT
References: <8902040631.AA03787@jade.berkeley.edu> <5905@cbmvax.UUCP> <307@corpane.UUCP>
Reply-To: andy@cbmvax.UUCP (Andy Finkel)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <307@corpane.UUCP> sparks@corpane.UUCP (John Sparks) writes:
>Hmm. I have used Fastdisk with workbench 1.2 for almost a year and have not
>had any problems. What have you heard about Fastdisk that makes you think
>it's a trojan horse? how can I find out?

I've seen the source to at least one of the programs calling
itself FastDisk.  It didn't seem to be a horse, but did seem to
assume a lot of things about the workbench disk, including
file names, and where the filesystem wanted to look, in what order.
It looked into your startup-sequence to try to arrange programs
on your disk in the correct order.

It probably breaks under 1.3 because we changed the names of some programs.
It may also have problems with the StartupII file, and
resident confuses it completely.

It will also  break on 1.4 when the filesystem changes again.
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