pjd@hpuxa.ircc.ohio-state.edu (Peter J. Dotzauer) (08/12/90)
Recently, I discovered that the public domain utility 'superdir.com'
contains the '12 Tricks Trojan' virus.
Although I have used it several times before I discovered this, it
apparently did not infect anything else. I also determined that the
virus was already in the version that I downloaded from a local BBS,
instead of entering the utility later on my system.
What does this virus do? It cannot be removed from the utility, and
I have not found an uninfected version of it on a local BBS.
Is it safe to run the infected utility from a floppy that has nothing
else on it, while temporarily write-protecting the hard disk with
another utility?
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Peter Dotzauer, Analyt.Cart.& GIS, Dept.of Geogr., OSU, Columbus, OH 43210-1361
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