C0195@UNIVSCVM.BITNET (Gregory E. Gilbert) (01/12/90)
I saw this posted in Vol. 8, Number 6 of the INFO-MAC Digest. THought is was worthy of a cross posting. 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 Friedman@biovax Greg Postal address: Gregory E. Gilbert Computer Services Division University of South Carolina Columbia, South Carolina USA 29208 (803) 777-6015 Acknowledge-To: <C0195@UNIVSCVM>