Subject: Re: [FFML] Warning about NEW Trojan Horse virus
From: Jan Sacharuk
Date: 10/21/1996, 2:14 PM
To: frosty-usa
CC: WebDragon <kmark@odyssey.on.ca>, fanfic@fanfic.com, jan@cs.ualberta.ca

On Sun, 20 Oct 1996, frosty-usa wrote:

@>
@>I belive that this message was originally posted on April 1st of this year.  
@>Please don't spread it around anymore.  It's about a trojan (there is no
@>such thing as a trojan horse virus), and it really isn't worth the anoyance
@>(and the looks of "who's the dumbass") that it brings.

Actually, by definition, every virus is a trojan horse. They all come
under the guise of something else innocuous. The only way it *couldn't* be
a trojan horse is if it was *advertized* as being infected. By definition,
a virus can't really exist on it's own. It replicates itself by attaching
to other programs and infecting or corrupting them.

Jan Sacharuk
Lurker extraordinaire.
Now blissfully not available.
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