Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!samsung!cg-atla!fredex From: fredex@cg-atla.UUCP (Fred Smith) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Trojan in Norton Message-ID: <8201@cg-atla.UUCP> Date: 27 Dec 89 14:35:15 GMT References: <25317@cup.portal.com> <1989Dec25.194207.22573@sj.ate.slb.com> Reply-To: fredex@cg-atla.UUCP (Fred Smith) Distribution: na Organization: Agfa Compugraphic Division Lines: 26 In article <1989Dec25.194207.22573@sj.ate.slb.com> poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russ Poffenberger) writes: >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! I think what Roger is writing about is the program named NORTSTOP, which was written about here a month or so ago. I just looked to see if I still had the article in question, but I have deleted it in the interim. Nortstop was a program which purported to be from Norton Computing and supposedly performed some useful function (sorry, I don't remember the details) but which instead would trash your hard disk, or some such unfriendly behavior. I don't think it is worthwhile to spread further rumors about a trojan from Norton, as it was pretty clear that this thing was NOT from Norton! Fred Smith uunet!samsung!cg-atla!fredex