ELEE4CZ@jetson.uh.edu (J.K. Meddahi) (11/28/90)
I read a couple of postings last week that mentionned Trojans in the zip files SCANV68 and SCANV70. I was expecting more reactions to these two messages, but nothing got posted. Does that mean that this was an unfounded rumor? If not, I'd like to know if these infected files originated from McAfee or if somebody fiddled with the files somewhere in the distribution chain. Thanks for any information you could share on this. Karim Bitnet: elee4cz@judy Internet: elee4cz@jane.uh.edu
s37775d@taltta.hut.fi (Pandy (A. Holmberg)) (11/30/90)
ELEE4CZ@jetson.uh.edu (J.K. Meddahi) writes: >I read a couple of postings last week that mentionned Trojans in the >zip files SCANV68 and SCANV70. I was expecting more reactions to these >two messages, but nothing got posted. Does that mean that this was an >unfounded rumor? The answer is NO: Here is an article by Nir Klar, where he explains his problems with SCANV68: ============================================================================= Date : 18-Sep-90 22:27 From : Nir Klar Subject : scanv68 is a trojan Hi Users, I got a file called scanv68.zip (29248 bytes) that contained a file called scan.com (63526 bytes). When I run it nothing really happened but after I tried to run several other programs with no success I got some message about SADAM HOUSAIN ! and so on. * When I run it on my hard disk it filled the rest of the disk with the same prog. (or just claimed it did). * Info: date of scan.com is 10 aug 90 time 15:55:62 crc dco62f1a * scan ver 66 did not detect any virus on it ! IT CAN BE A MODIFIED VER AND/OR TROJAN AND/OR VIRUS !!!!!! BEWARE BEWARE BEWARE BEWARE BEWARE BEWARE BEWARE BEWARE BEWARE BEWARE !!!!! Hope I helped Nir Klar - --- RA 0.04a via TBU DemonTasker * Origin: > The Black Universe BBS - Setting New Standards < (2:403/139) ============================================================================== So be careful everybody. The latest official version of SCANV is today SCANV67C!!!!!! /pandy - -- "I'm dreaming of a white christmas" -- B. Crosby ****************************************************************************** /I I Andreas "Pandy" Holmberg pandy@spiff.hut.fi /-I-I Helsinki University of Technology pandy@otax.hut.fi / I I Faculty of Electrical Engineering s37775d@taltta.hut.fi ******************************************************************************