On Wed, 14 Sep 1994 14:54:00 EDT, Vickie.Banks wrote:
>I just received another posting warning rather frantically of
>the extreme danger of getting the CD-IT virus off the Internet.
 
In the first place, IF it exists, its NOT a virus... it's a Trojan Horse.
A virus surreptitiously infects other software and may or may not actively
cause trouble.  A Trojan Horse claims to be a program that does one thing
and when launched does something else (usually nasty like writing NOPS all
over you're hard drive's FAT (File Allocation Table).  Trojan Horse
programs (and there are dozens) have been around since the EARLY 1980's
(one was probably written by someone envious of the first hard drive--all 5
MBytes of it :)  Most Trojan Horse software that I've seen promises to do
something a whole lot more believable than the physically impossible task
of making a CD-ROM reader write.
 
/s Murphy A. Sewall <[log in to unmask]> (203) 486-2489 voice
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