3501P@NAVPGS.BITNET (Jeffrey I. Weill) (08/11/90)
We are finding something suspicious when using a shareware program that functions as a shell for pkarc or pkzip. The program is called NARC.EXE 4.0, and has an authorship by Infinity Design Concepts Inc. 1987. Using the option for changing the drive designation calls up a pull-down window. At the top of the window, (which a look at a hexdump of the executable code tells us should be blank), there is a strange character string, in multicolor letters. It says "Die R". This struck us as rather odd. Nothing out of the ordinary has happened. It may be that someone has hacked the code as a practical joke. But if anyone out there has heard of this happening before, we would like to know about it. I'm not trying to malign this shareware, we just want to know if perhaps we might have been hit by a Trojan of some kind. Thanks; Jeffrey I. Weill 3501p@NAVPGS
woody@chinacat.Unicom.COM (Woody Baker @ Eagle Signal) (08/15/90)
3501P@NAVPGS.BITNET (Jeffrey I. Weill) writes: > that functions as a shell for pkarc or pkzip. The program is called > NARC.EXE 4.0, and has an authorship by Infinity Design Concepts Inc. > 1987. Using the option for changing the drive designation calls up a I have used narc 2.4 for a long time. The problem that you are describing does not exist in version 2.4 Here is the address of infinity 1052 Parkway Drive Louisvill, Kentucky 40217 Gary Conway. 2.4 does have a bug, it generaly trashes (i.e. truncates files at) approx 30K when extracting for some reason. Cheers Woody