afton@itsgw.rpi.edu (Alan S. Blue) (01/03/91)
This is a warning to Mac users everywhere... there may be a possible Trojan horse on the archives at rascal. On Monday, Dec 31, I downloaded the Stuffit Classic Installer and attempted to run it on my stock IIsi. (5Megs, 80Meg HD) The disk accessed for a while, then the dialog box showing the files installed appeared. The very first file raised a 'disk error -39' message, and the installer quit. I tried again, same problem. I looked in the folder where the Installer had resided, and it was gone. Not just the installer, the entire folder. And evry folder on the same level. I decided to shut down for the night. Mistake #1. The next day (Tues, 1/1) I tried booting up, and recived the little blinking question mark indicative of lack of System found. Ok, panic time. I booted from the System disk from Apple 6.0.7, and successfully installed a fresh System on the internal HD. No problem, right? Wrong. The Hd now didn't mount at all. I ran a floppy based SCSI checker, and it could find no drive at SCSI id=0. I unhooked the drive, and it said no device found, rehooked the drive, and it said 'unable to read required data from disk'. Great. So... WARNING: This may or may not be a Trojan. The problems with the drive (no SCSI access) seem to be hardware, but the missing folders would indicate an infiltrator. To The Moderators of Rascal: Please check this file! REPLY TO: Jason Smith Univ of Washington Applied Physics Lab jaesyn@apl.washington.edu Posted for Jason by Alan S. Blue. Pleas reply to Jason only.