On Mon, 21 Oct 1996 12:14:01 -0600 (MDT) Jan Sacharuk said:
: 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.
I thought the term "Trojan Horse" was defined to mean (in this
context) an innocent-looking program that pretends to do something
useful but actually is expressly designed to carry a virus into
the system it is run on. I.e. an infected program that was
*meant* to be infected and only written to spread the virus under
the guise of doing something else.
Sebastian (Glad that he owns an Acorn and never ever had a virus)