[comp.virus] CURSE.EXE Trojan ? ? ?

bien@venice.SEDD.TRW.COM (Frank E. Bien) (11/03/90)

There has been a lot of discussion on comp.windows.ms about the
possibility of CURSE.EXE actually being an IBM trojan.  A while back I
saw an article in this newsgroup about CURSE.EXE destroying the FAT
table "after some amount of time" (?).

It seems quite a few people are having problems with CURSE. . . has
anyone actually determined if it is a trojan??  Is it just a poorly
written program??  When the program is run, this disk it is run from
seems to get a lot of "unmovable blocks" and lost file errors (when
looked at w/Norton 5.0).

cica.cica.indiana.edu has removed Curse from its archives. . .  but I
have a feeling many people downloaded it before it was removed.  Does
anyone know anything about this??

Thanks,

Frank Bien
TRW Computer Security Services
bien@venice.sedd.trw.com