Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!samsung!uunet!sjsca4!molehill!poffen From: poffen@molehill (Russ Poffenberger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Trojan in Norton Message-ID: <1989Dec25.194207.22573@sj.ate.slb.com> Date: 25 Dec 89 19:42:07 GMT References: <25317@cup.portal.com> Reply-To: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russ Poffenberger) Distribution: na Organization: Schlumberger ATE, San Jose, CA Lines: 21 In article <25317@cup.portal.com> rwp@cup.portal.com (Roger William Preisendefer) writes: >I recently have heard a nasty rumor concerning a possible Trojan Horse >in the Nortan Utilities. This trojan will erase your hard disk sometime >around the end of December, while displaying some sort of message. The >source for this rumor is Computing News, a newsletter from the US Naval >Academy. Does anyone have any information confirming (or debunking) this? >It is supposed to be in the commercial release, not some pirated version >floating around the boards. GOOD GOD! I hope not! Is there any info about which one? There is a standard and advanced edition. I have a recent copy of the advanced edition, no sign of a problem yet (12/25/89, yeah I know, nothing better to do on X-mas than read netnews). Maybe I better back up my disk just in case. Damn I wish I had gotten that tape backup for X-mas that I wanted, hate to do it to floppies. Russ Poffenberger DOMAIN: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com Schlumberger Technologies UUCP: {uunet,decwrl,amdahl}!sjsca4!poffen 1601 Technology Drive CIS: 72401,276 San Jose, Ca. 95110 (408)437-5254