[1774] in WWW Security List Archive
Re: **New and Dangerous Computer Virus** (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David M. Chess)
Wed Apr 3 15:54:05 1996
Date: Wed, 3 Apr 96 11:36:48 EST
From: "David M. Chess" <chess@watson.ibm.com>
To: www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
A few more notes:
- It's not a virus, it's just a Trojan horse. That is, the
nasty destructive code is found only in the place the
author put it: some files claiming to be PKZIP 3.00.
- It's old; the original warning was in June of last year.
I don't know of any sightings of the actual Trojan in the
last <many> months.
- For some reason, the *warnings* have once again begun to
circulate wildly on the Net. Sigh...
Circulating this warning at this point is about as useful
as circulating a warning to the effect that some 14-year-old
in Idaho wrote a program in 1982 which, if run, would sometimes
erase your hard disk. Well, gosh!
- -- -
David M. Chess / "...net.net.god,
High Integrity Computing Lab / I wanna be
IBM Watson Research / a net.god..."
