saaf@joker.optics.rochester.edu (Lennart Saaf) (01/12/90)
I found this in the info-mac digest. # Date: Tue, 9 Jan 90 15:22 EST # From: FRIEDMAN@anchor.rutgers.edu # Subject: Trojan Horse???? A new one # # I recently saw a posting about two new sharewares, JCremote and Mac II # Diagnostic Sound. After unBinHexing and Unstuffing them, I did what # most of would, I checked for viruses using SAM Virus Clinic 1.3. No # known viruses were detected. I tried the Mac II Diagnostic Sound and # then installed JCremote. As I installed JCremote into my system # folder SAM 1.3 warned me about attempts to modify the system file, # however, this is not uncommon with a CDEV or RDEV. After installing # it, I opened the chooser and selected JCremote. The system froze. # When I rebooted the computer the computer started to launch, but the # crashed. There was no bomb or any message, just a blank screen. # After rebooting with a floppy and checking with Disinfectant 1.5, the # system file was noted as having a damaged resource fork. This meant I # had to install a new one. # # I am not sure which of the two mentioned files are the culprit. The # first time it happened I heard a sound which sounded like one of the # Mac II Diagnostic Sound sounds and the freeze occurred when I tried # running JCremote. # # Rich I had the same problem. However, I only downloaded JCRemote (from sumex). I didn't check for viruses. Rebooting after putting JCRemote in the system folder caused the smiley Mac to appear for about 1/2 second, after which the screen went gray for awhile. The floppy with the flashing question mark then appeared. Hitting the break button made a strange sound - 4 ascending tones. When I rebooted off a floppy, the system file on the hard disk was damaged and had to be replaced. The damage report was from Font/DA Mover - it couldn't open the system file. The system is a Mac IIx running 6.0.2. JCRemote seemed a little suspicious to begin with as it came without doccumentation. Has anyone been able to get JCRemote to work or is it just a sytem destroyer? -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ | Len Saaf, The Institute of Optics, Univ. of Rochester, Rochester, NY | | Internet: saaf@joker.optics.rochester.edu Bitnet: SAAF@UOROPT | ------------------------------------------------------------------------
d6maca@dtek.chalmers.se. (Martin Carlberg) (01/14/90)
>Has anyone been able to get JCRemote to work or is it >just a sytem destroyer? I was the one who posted JCRemote to the net. I'm using it almost every day between some Mac II's (IIci & II's with sytem 6.0.4) and I have never crashed it on these machines. BUT many people has problem with it, mostly on Pluses and SE's, but also on II's. I have been able to crash it on Plus and SE, but never had to reinstall a new system. I think JCRemote should be removed from info-mac, it's not stable. I don't know how to do it. Any hints? - Martin Carlberg - Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden