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| THE DIRTY DOZEN -- An Uploaded Program Alert List |
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| Issue #7: January 4th, 1987
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Recently, many unlawfully copied or modified programs have appeared on
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various IBM PC bulletin boards across the country. THE DIRTY DOZEN is a
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list of known examples.
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IMPORTANT NOTE: the author takes no responsibility for the validity or
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completeness of this list. Many sources contribute to the list, and it
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is very possible that one of the reported 'dirty' files works perfectly
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and is in the Public Domain. I will try to '*' asterisk any programs
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what I feel are not positively 'bad,' but all the same, it is quite
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possible that a mistake will slip in somewhere. Since this is the case,
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please keep in mind while reading this list that however unlikely, it is
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possible that I or my sources are incorrect in our accusations. Please
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also bear in mind that the dirty dozen list has not yet falsely accused
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a Public Domain program of being pirated, or a well working program of
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all existing bad software into one list. Everyday users upload bad
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software to hundreds of boards, and often times the software is not yet
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in this list. In other words, if you run a trojan horse that I did not
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list in here, don't call my board up call up and leave me a message so
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that I can get the destructive program in the next issue. If anyone is
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unsure whether a file is trojan, and it's not listed in here, then I
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recommend using a utility like BOMBSQAD.COM to prevent any mishaps.
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There are four major categories of bad software: commercial pirate jobs,
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unauthorized copies of otherwise legitimate freeware programs, malicious
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"TROJAN" programs which damage your system, and miscellaneous illegal
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software. Please look in the definitions section of this document for a
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more detailed explanation of these terms.
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SysOps: Please be careful with the files you post in your download
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libraries! An professional quality uploaded game or disk utility should
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arouse your suspicions, especially if it doesn't include the author's
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name, address, and distribution policy. Such programs are probably NOT
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public domain! The BBS community is already under legislative threat at
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the State and Federal level. We cannot fight this trend effectively
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while our directories sit stocked with cracked Sega games, wargames
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dialers, and malicious "trojan horses!" Let's demonstrate a little
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social responsibility by cleaning up our download libraries. If you as
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a SysOp have any of these files on your system, please delete them and
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post "blocking" dummy file entries like this one:
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ZAXXON.COM DELETED!! NOT PUBLIC DOMAIN!!
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If everyone works together to fight this new brand of software, the growing
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numbers of piraters and trojan horse writers may well be put 'out of business!'
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The idea behind THE DIRTY DOZEN is to bring this important issue to the
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attention of more SysOps and users - to act as an information "clearing -
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house" for the latest known examples of "bogusware," so that an educated
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public can fight effectively for safe downloadable files.
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The Dirty Dozen is a big project, and it needs your help to succeed!
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Please call in any updates of bad software that you know of, but DO NOT
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modify this article yourself. If everyone who discovers a pirated
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program starts modifying the DD, there would be hundreds of issues in
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circulation. Also, I think it's quite unfair, especially considerig that
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I've spent over a hundred hours of my time on this list, for just anyone
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to put their name at the top of the list and say that they write, or
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helped write, the DD. For example, someone named Gerhard Barth added
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two files, both of which were already listed in the DD, and proceeded to
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write "Updated by Gerhard Barth, please send all further updates to
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Gerhard Barth," etc. If everyone does this, how will anyone know which
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file is the latest and TRUE Dirty Dozen? If you have an update, please
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see the end of this article for information on how to reach me with new
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information.
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A user of mine has notified me that some pirates have patched HARDHAT.COM
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and PANGO.COM to read "cracked by Eric Newhouse." This is ridiculous!
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Please disregard any programs that you may come across in the future
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advertising "copy protection busted by Eric Newhouse, " or the like.
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This is just one more way that pirates are trying to get me to stop
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publishing this list!
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A word on TROJANS: I have been hearing more and more reports of these
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"worm" programs, from all directions. While I don't doubt their
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existence, do not get hysterical. Remember, a Trojan rumor is much
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easier to START than it is to STOP. Some people have accused legitimate
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*joke* programs, like DRAIN (which pretends to be gurgling excess water
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out of your A drive) of being "killers." If a program locks up your
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system, it isn't necessarily Trojan; it might not like co-residing with
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Superkey, or your graphics card. Ask around a little before you
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announce something as Trojan. I would appreciate a bagged specimen of
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any real Trojan program that you might have the (un)luck to find.
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A word on Pirated programs: Recently many pirated programs such as AUTODEX
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have been going under many different names. Although I will try to keep
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all these names current in the DD, the best way to check for piracy in
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a file is to run that file yourself -- checking for (C)opyright
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notices of commercial manufactures, similarities in looks and operations
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of commercial programs, and of course whether the name is in this list.
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Finally I want to thank all BBS SysOps and users that notified me of
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updates, additions, and/or corrections to DIRTYDOZ.006. It's great to
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see so much support! In this issue more people than ever called in with
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updates. Everyone else who reads this list, along with myself, really
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appreciates the effort!
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DEFINITIONS:
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HACKED An unlawfully modified copy of an otherwise legitimate
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public domain or user-supported program. It is illegal to
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distribute a modified copy of someone else's work without
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their permission! All modified programs must contain this
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permission, either in the program's display or documentation.
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*TROJAN* BEWARE!! These programs PURPOSEFULLY damage a user's system
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upon their invokation. Usually they aim to disable hard disks,
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although they can destroy other equipment too. It is IMPERATIVE
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that you let me know about any new examples of these that you
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find.
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PIRATED This is an illegal copy of a commercial program product.
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Examples: a cracked (de-protected) game, an accidentally
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or deliberately distributed compiler, editor or utility;
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sometimes a Beta test copy of a program under development,
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handed out by a disgruntled employee or dishonest beta
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tester. In the latter case, the program in question may
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never make it to market due to the piracy! In the case of games,
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there's a tendency for the pirate to patch a clumsy
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"PUBLIC DOMAIN" notice over top of the original copyright.
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ZAXXON.COM is a prime example.
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MISC This is miscellaneous illegal software and/or text.
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The best definition, aside from that, that I can think of
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is that it's NOT pirated software.
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NOTE: If I do not supply a file extension, that means that the file circulates
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under many different extensions. For instance, users commonly upload with extensions of either: .EXE, .COM, .EQE, .CQM, .LBR, .LQR, and .ARC.
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ANTI-PCB *TROJAN* The story behind this trojan horse is sickening.
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Apparently one RBBS-PC sysop and one PC-BOARD
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sysop started feuding about which BBS system
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is better, and in the end the PC-BOARD sysop
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wrote a trojan and uploaded it to the rbbs
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SysOp under ANTI-PCB.COM. Of course the RBBS-PC
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SysOp ran it, and that led to quite a few
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accusations and a big mess in general. Let's grow
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up! Every SysOp has the right to run the type of
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BBS that they please, and the fact that a SysOp
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actually wrote a trojan intended for another
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simply blows my mind.
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ARC513.EXE *TROJAN* This hacked version of arc appears normal, so
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beware! It will write over track 0 of your
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[hard] disk upon usage, destroying the disk.
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ARC514.COM *TROJAN* This is totally similar to arc version 5.13 in that
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it will overwrite track 0 (FAT Table) of your hard
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disk. Also, I have yet to see an .EXE version
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of this program..
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BACKTALK *TROJAN* This program used to be a good PD utility,
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but some one changed it to be trojan.
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Now this program will write/destroy sectors
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on your [hard] disk drive. Use this with caution
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if you acquire it, because it's more than likely
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that you got a bad copy.
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CDIR.COM *TROJAN* This program is supposed to give you a color
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directory of files on disk, but it in fact
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will scramble your disks FAT table.
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DANCERS.BAS *TROJAN* This trojan shows some animated dancers in color,
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and then proceeds to wipe out your [hard] disk's
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FAT table. There is another perfectly good copy
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of DANCERS.BAS on BBS's around the country;
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apparently the idiot author in question altered
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a legitimate program to do his dirty work.
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DISKSCAN.EXE *TROJAN* This was a PC-MAGAZINE program to scan a (hard) disk
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for bad sectors, but then a joker edited it to
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WRITE bad sectors. Also look for this under other
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names such as SCANBAD.EXE and BADDISK.EXE...
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DMASTER *TROJAN* This is yet another FAT scrambler..
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DOSKNOWS.EXE *TROJAN* I'm still tracking this one down -- apparently
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someone wrote a FAT killer and renamed it
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DOSKNOWS.EXE, so it would be confused with the
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real, harmless DOSKNOWS system-status utility.
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All I know for sure is that the REAL DOSKNOWS.EXE
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is 5376 bytes long. If you see something called
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DOSKNOWS that isn't close to that size, sound the
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alarm. More info on this one is welcomed -- a
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bagged specimen especially.
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DPROTECT *TROJAN* Apparently someone tampered with the original,
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legitimate version of DPROTECT and turned
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it into a FAT table eater.
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EGABTR *TROJAN* BEWARE! Description says something like
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"improve your EGA display," but when run it
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deletes everything in sight and prints "Arf! Arf!
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Got you!"
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EMMCACHE *TROJAN* This is a funny trojan. The author did a good
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V. 1.0 job of writing the documentation, and on the
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outside it looks to be a very well written
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program. However, after running it to install
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69 pages of a EMS disk cache, the program
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A) Scrambled every file that I thereafter modified
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(changed and then wrote to disk), and
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B) Destroyed my boot sector.
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The program is especially dangerous because it
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will damage many of your most used files before
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you realize what hit you.
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FILER.EXE *TROJAN* One SysOp complained a while ago that this program
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wiped out his 20 Megabyte HD. I'm not so
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sure that he was correct and/or telling the
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truth any more. I have personally tested an
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excellent file manager also named FILER.EXE, and
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it worked perfectly. Also, many other SysOp's
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have written to tell me that they have like me
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used a FILER.EXE with no problems. If you get a
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program named FILER.EXE, it is probably allright,
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but better to test it first using some security
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measures.
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FINANCE4.ARC *TROJAN* This program is not a verified trojan;
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there is simply a file going around BBS's
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warning that it may be trojan. In any case,
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execute extreme care with it.
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FUTURE.BAS *TROJAN* This "program" starts out with a very nice color
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picture (of what I don't know) and then proceeds
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to tell you that you should be using your computer
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for better things than games and graphics.
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After making that point it trashes your A: drive,
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B:, C:, D:, and so on until it has erased all
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drives. It does not go after the FAT alone,
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but it also erases all of your data. As far as I
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know, however, it erases only one sub-directory
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tree level deep, thus hard disk users should only
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be seriously affected if they are in the "root"
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directory. I'm not sure about this on either,
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though.
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MAP *TROJAN* This is another trojan horse written by the infamous
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NOTROJ.COM *TROJAN* This "program" is the most sophisticated trojan
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horse that I've seen to date. All outward
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appearances indicate that the program is a useful
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utility used to FIGHT other trojan horses.
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Actually, it is a time bomb that erases any hard
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disk FAT table that IT can find, and at the same
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time it warns: "another program is attempting a
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format, can't abort!" After erasing the FAT(s),
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NOTROJ then proceeds to start a low level format.
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One extra thing to note: NOTROJ only damages FULL
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hard drives; if a hard disk is under 50% filled,
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this program won't touch it!
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If you are interested in reading a thorough report
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on NOTROJ.COM, James H. Coombes has written an
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excellent text file on the matter named NOTROJ.TXT.
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If you have trouble finding it, you can get it from
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my board.
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TIRED *TROJAN* Another scramble the FAT trojan by Dorn W.
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Stickle.
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TSRMAP *TROJAN* This program does what it's supposed to do:
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give a map outlining the location (in RAM) of
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all TSR programs, but it also erases the boot
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sector of drive "C:".
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PACKDIR *TROJAN* This utility is supposed to "pack" (sort and
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optimize) the files on a [hard] disk, but
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apparently it scrambles FAT tables.
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QUIKRBBS.COM *TROJAN* This Trojan horse advertises that it will
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QUIKREF *TROJAN* This ARChive contains ARC513.COM.
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load RBBS-PC's message file into memory
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2 times faster than normal. What it really
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does is copy RBBS-PC.DEF into an ASCII file
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named HISCORES.DAT...
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RCKVIDEO *TROJAN* This is another trojan that does what it's supposed
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to do, then wipes out hard disks. After showing
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some simple animation of a rock star ("Madonna," I
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think), the program will go to work on erasing
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every file it can lay it's hands on. After
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about a minute of this, it will create 3 ascii
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files that say "You are stupid to download a video
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about rock stars," or something of the like.
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SECRET.BAS *TROJAN* BEWARE!! This may be posted with a note saying
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it doesn't seem to work, and would someone please
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try it; when you do, it formats your disks.
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SIDEWAYS.COM *TROJAN* Be careful with this trojan; there is a perfectly
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legitimate version of SIDEWAYS.EXE circulating. Both
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the trojan and the good SIDEWAYS advertise that they
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can print sideways, but SIDEWAYS.COM will trash a
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[hard] disk's boot sector instead. The trojan
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.COM file is about 3 KB, whereas the legitimate
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.EXE file is about 30 KB large.
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STAR.EXE *TROJAN* Beware RBBS-PC SysOps! This file puts some
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stars on the screen while copying RBBS-PC.DEF
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to another name that can be downloaded later!
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STRIPES.EXE *TROJAN* Similar to STAR.EXE, this one draws an American
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flag (nice touch), while it's busy copying
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your RBBS-PC.DEF to another file (STRIPES.BQS) so
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Bozo can log in later, download STRIPES.BQS, and
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steal all your passwords. Nice, huh!
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TOPDOS *TROJAN* This is a simple high level [hard] disk formatter.
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VDIR.COM *TROJAN* This is a disk killer that Jerry Pournelle wrote
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about in BYTE Magazine. I have never seen it,
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although a responsible friend of mine has.
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ARC.COM HACKED Someone keeps running SPACEMAKER or a similar EXE
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squeezer on SEA, Inc.'s ARC archive program, then
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uploading the resulting COM file to BBS's without
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the author's permission. SEA will NOT support the COM version -- this
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is an unauthorized modification.
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AUTOMAXX.ARC HACKED This DOS menu-making program comes with
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documentation that is almost certainly
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plagiarized. Marshall Magee, author of the
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popular AUTOMENU program, contends that the
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AUTOMAXX documentation uses exact phrases from his
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documentation, and if this is the case, AUTOMAXX
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is clearly illegal. In addition, the
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executionable file in AUTOMAXX.ARC may also
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be plagiarized. For more information, please
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contact Marshall Magee, at (404) 446-6611.
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DOG102A.COM * HACKED Apparently this is a renamed early version of the
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DP102A.ARC utility DISKPACK.COM. One person has reported that it
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trashed his hard disk that was formatted under
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DOS 3.1 (2KB clusters).
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LIST60 HACKED Vern Buerg's LIST 5.1, patched to read 6.0.
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Note: Mr. Buerg has released a legitimate version
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6.0 of LIST. Every legit. version will have
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a letter in the filename (e.g. LIST60H.ARC)
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LIST799 HACKED Vern Buerg's LIST 5.1, patched to read 7.99.
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QMDM110.ARC HACKED These hacked versions of qmodem are
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QMDM110A.ARC copies of 1.09, patched to read 1.10. There
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have been rumors of a worm in 1.10, but I
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have seen no evidence of it. Other
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versions are OK.
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1DIR.COM PIRATED Util -- This is "The ONE Dir," a commercial shell
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sold with a Hard Disk subsystem.
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21C.EXE PIRATED Game -- From the IBM Game Library -- blackjack
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ACUPAINT PIRATED Misc -- PC Paint -- ARC-ed file is 148,221 bytes.
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ALLEYCAT.COM PIRATED Util -- The IBM game "Alley Cat"
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ALTEREGO.ARC PIRATED Game -- Alter Ego game from Activision
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this archive file is huge -- about 450KB
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or so..
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ARCHON.COM PIRATED Game -- Electronic Art's Archon.
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ARTOFWAR PIRATED Game -- Ancient Art of War game.
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AUTODEX PIRATED Util -- AUTODEX, a commercial file manager
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AXX.EXE PIRATED Util -- also AUTODEX
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B1-BOMB PIRATED Game -- Avalon Hill's B1 Bomber
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BATTLE PIRATED Game -- Battle Zone Game
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BBCHESS PIRATED Game -- Blues Box Chess
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BC-QUEST PIRATED Game -- Bc's Quest for Tires
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BIGMAC.ARC PIRATED Util -- Also Superkey
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BRUCELEE PIRATED Game -- Bruce Lee game
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BUCK PIRATED Game -- Buck Rogers on Planet Zoom
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BURGER PIRATED Game -- Burgertime
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BUSHIDO PIRATED Game -- Karate Game
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BUZZBAIT PIRATED Game -- Buzzard Bait
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CALL2ARM PIRATED Game -- Call to Arms
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CENTIPED PIRATED Game -- Be careful with this one. At least two other
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legitimate, PD copies of Centipede are in
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circulation. There pirated one is
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supposedly PUBLIC DOMAIN BY ATARI.
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Yeah, Right.
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COMMANDR.ARC PIRATED Game -- Norton Commander
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COSMIC PIRATED Game -- Cosmic Crusaders
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COPYRITE PIRATED Util -- Really Quaid Software's COPYWRITE
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COPYWRIT PIRATED Util -- Quaid Software's COPYWRITE again
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COSMIC PIRATED Game -- Cosmic Crusaders game
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CROSFIRE.COM PIRATED Game -- Cross fire game..
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CRUSH-CC.ARC PIRATED Game -- Crush, Crumble & Chomp Game
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DEB88.EXE PIRATED Misc -- DeSmet "C" debugger
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DECATH PIRATED Game -- Microsoft Decathalon
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DEFENDER PIRATED Game -- Defender
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DIGGER.COM PIRATED Game -- Dig Dug
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DIGDUG.COM PIRATED Game -- Dig Dug
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DISKEX PIRATED Util -- Disk Explorer Utility
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DOSHELP.EXE PIRATED Util -- This is really Central Point Software's
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PC-tools. One special note: There is
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usually a poorly written documentation
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accompanying this file. In the
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documentation ERIC HSU asks for a monetary
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contribution to his bbs. Well, It
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seems that this was a poor attempt to damage
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ERIC HSU's reputation; Eric is a legitimate
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SysOp in the Houston area.
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DOSMENU PIRATED Util -- INTECH'S DOSMENU - The Menu screen says "PC
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DOS MENU SYSTEM 5.0" Archive size is
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208,240 - The copyright notice is on the
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bottom of the screen.
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DOSSHELL PIRATED Util -- AUTODEX again
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DRL PIRATED Game -- Avalon Hill's "Dnieper River Line."
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DIPLOMCY PIRATED Game -- Avalon Hill's "Computer Diplomacy" game.
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EGADIAG PIRATED Util -- Quadram EGA (Quad EGA+) diagnostics.
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EINSTIME PIRATED Util -- Another pirated IBM internal utility
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EXPLORER.COM PIRATED Util -- Quaid Software's Disk Explorer
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EVOLUTIO PIRATED Game -- Evolution
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F15 PIRATED Game -- F-15 Strike Eagle
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FILEEASE PIRATED Util -- Dos Utility
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FILEMGR PIRATED Util -- Really FILE MANAGER by Lotus Devel. Corp.
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FILEMAN PIRATED Util -- Also FILE MANAGER. The file is 10 KBytes
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FINDIT PIRATED Util -- IBM internal 'locate a file' utility
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FSDEBUG PIRATED Util -- IBM's Full Screen Debug program..
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GOLDCUP PIRATED Game -- Gold Cup championship soccer
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GOLF21.ARC PIRATED Game -- Golf's Best version 2.1
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GREMLINS.COM PIRATED Game -- Gremlins game
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HARDHAT.COM PIRATED Game -- Hard Hat Mack
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HIGHORBT PIRATED Game -- High Orbit (like Star Wars)
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HOOP.COM PIRATED Game -- One-on-1
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ID PIRATED Util -- Persyst Ram disk software
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IBM21 PIRATED Game -- 21c
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IPLTIME.COM PIRATED Util -- IBM Internal Use Clock utility
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JBIRD PIRATED Game -- Jbirds -- Q-bert Game
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JET PIRATED Game -- Jet is a flight simulator
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JETDRIVE.ARC PIRATED Util -- JET Drive -- copies files quickly
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JOUST PIRATED Game -- Joust. Be careful, there is a 6K version
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KEYWORKS.ARC PIRATED Util -- Keyworks macro program, usu. version 2.0
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KONG PIRATED Game -- Donkey Kong
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LIGHTNIN PIRATED Util -- Can be either the cache or spell checker
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MACE+ PIRATED Util -- Paul Mace's MACE+ utilities
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MACROS PIRATED Util -- Again Superkey, or even Prokey
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MEDMAG.COM PIRATED Util -- Quaid Software's Media Magician
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MISSLEC PIRATED Game -- Missle command
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MONTYS.COM PIRATED Game -- Montezuma's Revenge
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MOONBUGS PIRATED Game -- Moon Bugs
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MS PIRATED Util -- IBM internal utility.
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MTS PIRATED Util -- IBM Multitasker that's similar to Double-Dos
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MULTASK PIRATED Util -- Same as MTS
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MURDRBY# PIRATED Game -- Murder by Numbers
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MUSICCON PIRATED Misc -- Music Construction Set
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NFL.ARC PIRATED Game -- Xor's NFL challenge.
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NICE PIRATED Misc -- A printer Controller
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NODISK-A.COM PIRATED Util -- Central Point software's Nokey.
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NORTON.COM PIRATED Util -- Peter Norton's Utilities!
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NOVATRON PIRATED Util -- Tron light cycles.
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ONE-ON-1 PIRATED Game -- One-on-1 basketball game.
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PATHMIND PIRATED Util -- Dos Shell
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PC-POOL PIRATED Game -- Really PC-POOL, commercial game
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PC-TOOLS PIRATED Util -- Central Point Software's PC-tools
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PCBOSS PIRATED Util -- Another Dos shell
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PCED PIRATED Util -- Pro CED, DOS command line editor
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PEII PIRATED Util -- IBM Personal Editor II
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PINCONST PIRATED Game -- Pinball Construction Set
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POOL.ARC PIRATED Game -- Same as PC-POOL
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POPALARM.COM PIRATED Util -- Part of POP DOS
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POPDOS.ARC PIRATED Util -- Pop up (resident) dos utilities.
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PRIME PIRATED Util -- Columbia Data Co. hard disk utility.
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PROKEY PIRATED Util -- Prokey macros program
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PSHIFT PIRATED Util -- really MEMORY SHIFT
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PSRD.ARC PIRATED Util -- IBM utility (redirects PrtSc)
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QDOS PIRATED Util -- Quickdos
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QUCKDOS PIRATED Util -- Quickdos
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QIX PIRATED Game -- The game.
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RACTER PIRATED Game -- Racter
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RASTER-B PIRATED Game -- Raster Blaster
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RIGHTW PIRATED Util -- Right Writer (writing style checker)
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ROBOTRON PIRATED Game -- Robotron, hacked to read PUBLIC DOMAIN BY
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ATARI. Don't pirates have any imagination?
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ROGUE.EXE PIRATED Game -- Game very similar to the PD game HACK.EXE
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ROMANTIC PIRATED Game -- Romantic Encounters at the Dome. Also RE.ARC
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SEADRAG.ARC PIRATED Game -- Sea Dragon
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SEE PIRATED Misc -- DeSmet editor
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SFX PIRATED Util -- really AUTODEX (again!)
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SM.COM PIRATED Util -- Realia's SPACEMAKER utility
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SMAP PIRATED Util -- IBM Internal utility, with the copyright
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notice blanked out and real author's name
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() replaced by "Dorn W. Stickle".
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SPYHUNT PIRATED Game -- Spy Hunter Game.
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STARGATE.EXE PIRATED Game -- Hacked to say "PUBLIC DOMAIN BY ATARI,"
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but don't you believe it! Be careful not
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to confuse this 57 KB .EXE file with the
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public domain STARGATE MERCHANT game, which
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is a little 12 KB BASIC program by G. E.
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Wolfworth.
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STRIPKR PIRATED Game -- Strip Poker by Artworx
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SUPERCAD PIRATED Misc -- Easy CAD, a drawing program -- LQR file
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size is 242,660 bytes
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SUPERKEY PIRATED Misc -- Superkey macro program
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TEMPOFAP PIRATED Game -- Temple of Apshai
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THEQUEST.BAS/EXE PIRATED Game -- The Quest
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TIRES.EXE PIRATED Game -- Again, really bc's quest for tires
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TREASURE PIRATED Game -- Pirate's Treasure game
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ULTIII PIRATED Game -- Ultima 3
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UTILITY PIRATED Util -- Norton's Utilities Arced and with the file
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names changed. When run, however, the
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programs display the copyright notice of
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Peter Norton. Many other pirated utilities
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|
could also go under the name UTILITY.
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VOYAGERI PIRATED Game -- (Avalon-Hill Game)
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VS PIRATED Util -- Also INTECH'S DOSMENU
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WCKARATE PIRATED Game -- World Championship karate by Epyx
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WG-BBALL PIRATED Game -- World's Greatest Baseball Game
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WORSTR PIRATED Util -- Word Star, labeled as a 'great new editor'
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XDIR PIRATED Util -- Pre-release version of DOS FILE TRACKER
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XTREE PIRATED Util -- IBM's tree utility, an IBM "Personally
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Developed" program.
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ZAXXON PIRATED Game -- Hacked (sound familiar?) to say "PUBLIC
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DOMAIN BY SEGA." Sorry, Charlie!
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| MISCELLANEOUS ILLEGAL FILES: |
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COPYWRIT MISC Patch -- Although the real COPYWRITE is going around
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Bulletin Boards like fire, there is another
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illegal file under the same name.
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The former takes around 40 KB ARC-ed,
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whereas this takes about 2 KB.
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What I'm referring to is an archive of
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1-3 files that explains how to remove
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the serial numbers from copywrite. Now
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it's allright to "unprotect" a program
|
|
for backup purposes, but removing serial
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|
numbers can only lead to piracy.
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LOCKPICK MISC Text -- This is a text file, usually with a
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.TXT extension, that casually explains
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how to pick locks. I'm not sure
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|
whether this is illegal, but it's
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definitely in poor taste.
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MONOPOLY MISC Game -- The authors of all monopoly
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|
programs are, according to a fairly reliable
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|
source, being sued by Parker Brothers over
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copyright infringements. These files may
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|
become illegal soon, but as of this printing
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|
they are still legal.
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MOVBASIC MISC Util -- This highly illegal file breaks IBM copyright
|
|
on BASIC and BASICA. What it does is create
|
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new files called SBASIC or SBASICA that run
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"IBM BASIC" on an IBM clone. Guys, don't
|
|
you think that these clones don't run IBM
|
|
BASICA for a good reason? The clones
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|
don't support BASICA because it's illegal!
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XTALK MISC Patch -- Like Copywrite, there is a patch circulating
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BBS's to remove the serial numbers from
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Crosstalk.
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| Many thanks to generous, continuous update contributions from: |
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| 1. THE SOURCE information service. |
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| 2. Jim Harrington |
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| 3. Jim Golden |
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| 4. You? |
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This is the end of the "bad files list." The rest of this document
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contains instructions on what to do if YOU run a trojan horse, an update
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history, a glossary, and information on how and where to contact me with
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updates.
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| If you run a trojan horse.. |
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While reading this, bear in mind that there is no better remedy for a drive
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that has run a trojan horse than a recent backup..
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The first thing to do after running what you think to be a trojan horse is
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diagnose the damage. Was your [hard] drive formatted? Did the trojan
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scramble your FAT table? Did every file get erased? Did your boot
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sector on the [hard] drive get erased/formatted? Odds are that the
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trojan incurred one of these four disasters.. After the initial
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diagnosis, you are ready to remedy the problem.
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1) If the trojan low-level formatted your [hard] disk:
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Hope that you have a recent backup; that's the only remedy for
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this disease.
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2) If the trojan high-level formatted your [hard] disk:
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There is only one way out of this mess, and that is to use the
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MACE+ utilities by Paul Mace. MACE+ has two devices in it to
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recover formatted disks, and believe me, they work! I will talk
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more about the MACE+ utilities later.
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3) If the trojan scrambled your FAT table:
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Once again, there is nothing to do. However, there is a program
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|
called FATBACK.COM (available on my board) that will back up your
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FAT table in under a minute to floppy. Using FATBACK, it is easy
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and non time consuming to back up your FAT regularly.
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4) If the trojan erased file(s), and the FAT table is undamaged:
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There are many packages to undelete deleted files. Norton
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Utilities, PC-tools, MACE+, and UNDEL.COM will all do the job.
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I recommend the first three, but they are more expensive than
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the Public Domain program UNDEL.COM. When you are undeleting,
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be sure to undelete files in the order of last time written to
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disk. I know that PC-tools automatically lists undeletable
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files in the correct order, but the other three may not.
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5) If the boot sector on your [hard] disk gets erased/formatted:
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There are four things to do if this happens, and the worst that
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can happen is that you will go without a [hard] disk for a while.
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To be on the safest side, back up everything before even proceeding
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|
to step "A," although I can not see why it would be necessary.
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A) Try doing a "SYS C:" (or "SYS A:") from your original DOS disk,
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and copy COMMAND.COM back onto the [hard] drive after that.
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Try booting and if that doesn't work try step B.
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B) If you have the MACE+ utilities go to the "other utilities"
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section and "restore boot sector." This should do the job
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if you have been using MACE+ correctly.
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C) If you are still stuck, BACK EVERYTHING UP and proceed to do a
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low level format. Instructions on how to perform a low-level
|
|
format should come with your [hard] disk controller card.
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Be sure to map out bad sectors using either SCAV.COM by Chris
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|
Dunford or by manually entering the locations of bad sectors
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|
into the low level format program. After the low level format,
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if your have a hard disk, run FDISK.COM (it comes with DOS)
|
|
and create a DOS partition. Refer to your DOS manual for help
|
|
in using FDISK. Then put your original DOS diskette in drive A:
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and do a FORMAT <drive letter>:/S/V. Drive letter can stand for
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"C" or "B" depending on whether you are reformatting a hard disk
|
|
or not. Finally you are ready to attempt a reboot.
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D) If you are still stuck, either employ some professional computer
|
|
repairmen to fix your drive, or live with a non-bootable [hard]
|
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drive..
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By now you may be saying to yourself:
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"How can I get a hold of a 'MACE+' utilities package so that I can guard
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against trojans? Why, MACE+ can recover a formatted drive, undelete
|
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files, restore boot sectors, optimize a disk, and provide a disk cache!
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Anyone can obtain these marvelous utilities in one of two ways: one is to
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call up the Paul Mace Software Company (tm) and order them at a retail
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of $ 79.95. The other is place an order for them at the WEST LOS
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ANGELES PC-STORE, which supports next day UPS shipping! The BBS phone #
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for the PC-STORE is at the end of this document.
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| Update History: |
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Version 1.0 Plans were drawn up for a "bad file" list and a dozen
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bad files were entered in the list.
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Version 2.0 Saw the addition of a short introduction and 3
|
|
more files. All work up to here was done by Tom Neff.
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Version 3.0 Here Tom Neff and I started collaborating on the Dirty
|
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Dozen. 22 files were added, and the introduction
|
|
was completely re-written. Version 3.0 had a total of
|
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37 files.
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Version 4.0 By this time I totally took over responsibility
|
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of the DD, as Tom Neff lost interest. Another 30 or
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so files were added to the list, making the DD 65+
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files strong, as well as a few more additions to the
|
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introduction.
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Version 5.0 By the time I released version 5.0 to the public, the Dirty Dozen
|
|
was being greeted favorably and with enthusiasm
|
|
around the country. Updates started coming in with
|
|
regularity; the list prospered (if one can say that
|
|
about a list!). A few more paragraphs were added to
|
|
the introduction, and about 40 new files were bringing
|
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the file total up to 103!
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Version 6.0 The Dirty Dozen is now such a big project that
|
|
I am now writing it in stages. Although I am going to
|
|
make absolutely no effort to spread these "intermediate
|
|
versions," they will always be downloadable from my board.
|
|
This way if anyone so desires, they may keep an extremely
|
|
current issue of the DD, although the changes will only be
|
|
minor. You might think of stage "a" of issue #6 as version
|
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6.1, stage "b" as version 6.2, stage "c" as version 6.3, etc.
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New in version 6.0 is the following:
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A) Many minor revisions,
|
|
B) 17 more files, bringing the total to 120!
|
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C) Two new paragraphs in the introduction,
|
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D) Instructions on how to recover from a trojan horse,
|
|
E) A comprehensive glossary,
|
|
F) This update history,
|
|
G) An acknowledgments section set up for major
|
|
contributors of information regarding new bogusware
|
|
H) A new bogusware catagory of "miscellaneous
|
|
illegal software."
|
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|
|
Version 6.0a MOVBASIC.ARC and SBASICA added to the list of illegal files.
|
|
as well as six Trojan horses have been added to the list.
|
|
Version 6.0c NOTROJ.COM added to the trojan horse list.
|
|
Version 6.0d DOG102A.COM added to the hacked files list.
|
|
HACKED files separated from TROJAN files
|
|
Version 6.0e DANCERS.BAS added to the trojans list.
|
|
Version 6.0f 4 pirated files added, + NODISK-A and DMASTER to trojans
|
|
Version 6.0g NODISK-A removed from trojan horse list & placed into pirated
|
|
programs list. Monopoly warning issued in misc section.
|
|
added a few pirated programs. + DPROTECT added as trojan.
|
|
Version 6.0h EMMCACHE and TIRED added to trojan list, + PEII added.
|
|
Version 6.0i Added TOPDOS to Trojan list, and AUTOMAXX to HACKED list.
|
|
Version 6.0j Added QUICKREF to trojans list. Revised introduction,
|
|
and added a paragraph to the intro about modifying the DD.
|
|
Version 6.0k Moved paragraph about 'I'm not responsible for this
|
|
list' to the front of the file for legal reasons.
|
|
Also added the '*' convention for HACKED programs.
|
|
Version 6.0l Added FINANCE4 as a possible trojan. Added a few glossary
|
|
definitions.
|
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|
|
Version 7.0 The major changes in this version took place in the
|
|
revision stages above. However, I still changed
|
|
quite a bit in version 7.0 compared to 6.0 revision
|
|
stage 'L;' for example, I added seventeen new pirated
|
|
programs, bringing the file total to a whopping 165!
|
|
Moreover, I rewrote virtually every paragraph in the dirty
|
|
dozen in order to 'stylize' (clean up the writing in) the
|
|
document. Once again I would like to thank all users who
|
|
called in updates to the Dirty Dozen; those users are the
|
|
people that encourage me to keep producing the dirty dozen!
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| Glossary: |
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| I have intended this glossary at the beginning to intermediate |
|
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| user; all experienced BBS users will be bored to death with this. |
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?Q? -- (? standing for any character). File extension for SQueezed
|
|
files. Squeezed files are unusable until unsqueezed by a
|
|
utility such as NUSQ.COM or USQ.COM. The advantage of a
|
|
SQueezed file is that it is smaller than a regular UnSQueezed
|
|
file, thus saving disk space and download time. ARChives are
|
|
more efficient than Squeezed files; that's why there are so
|
|
many more ARChives on BBS's these days. Example of the
|
|
extensions of SQueezed files: .EQE, .CQM, .LQR, .TQT,
|
|
.DQC, etc.
|
|
ABBRV -- abbreviation for the word: "abbreviation"
|
|
ARC -- File extension for an ARChive file -- many files combined
|
|
together to save space and download time that require ARC.EXE,
|
|
PKXARC.COM, ARCE.COM, or ARCLS.EXE to separate the
|
|
files in to runnable and readable (in the case of
|
|
text) form.
|
|
BAS -- abbrv for "BASIC," as in the programming language
|
|
BBS -- abbrv for "Bulletin Board System"
|
|
BBS's -- abbrv for "Bulletin Board Systems"
|
|
BOARD -- Also "Bulletin Board System"
|
|
BOGUSWARE -- software that is damaging to one or more parties
|
|
BOOT or -- to boot a computer is to restart it from scratch, erasing
|
|
REBOOT all TSR programs. One reboots by either powering
|
|
off and then back on, or pressing ctrl-alt-del at the same time.
|
|
BYTES -- Bytes measure the length of a file, with one
|
|
byte equaling one character in a file.
|
|
CACHE [disk] -- Area of memory set aside to hold recent data. All programs
|
|
then read recent data from that memory rather than from disk.
|
|
CLUSTER -- a phyical block on all [hard] disks, composed of sectors, that
|
|
holds data.
|
|
COM -- file extension for a file that is executable from DOS level
|
|
DD -- abbrv for "dirty dozen"
|
|
DOC -- abbrv for "documentation"
|
|
EMS -- Enhanced Memory Specification. An EMS card holds 2 MB extra mem.
|
|
EXE -- file extension for a file that is executable from DOS level
|
|
HACKED -- see "definitions" section
|
|
HIGH LEVEL
|
|
FORMAT -- This type of format is what most computer users view as
|
|
a regular DOS-format. That is, formatting a disk using
|
|
FORMAT.COM (included with DOS) is a high level format.
|
|
IBM -- International Business Machines
|
|
IBM OR COMP -- IBM computer or a 99% or greater IBM Compatible computer
|
|
KB -- Abbreviation for "KiloBytes," one Kb equals 1024 bytes
|
|
LBR -- Extension on Library files. Library files are really
|
|
many combined files like ARChives, but they require
|
|
different utilities to extract the individual files.
|
|
Some examples of such utilities are LUU.EXE, LUE.EXE,
|
|
LAR.EXE, AND ZIP.EXE. See "ARC"
|
|
LOW LEVEL
|
|
FORMAT -- This type of format is only executed on a hard disk, therefore
|
|
most hard disk low-level format programs come only with
|
|
a hard disk controller card. There are a few PD low-level
|
|
formatting packages, though. Most manufacturers low-level
|
|
format their hard drives at the factory. Low level formatting
|
|
is the first step in the three part formatting process; the
|
|
second step is to use FDISK, and the third is to execute a
|
|
high level format.
|
|
MB -- abbrv for "Megabytes," or "millions of bytes."
|
|
MISC -- abbrv for "miscellaneous"
|
|
OPTIMIZE -- to make all files on a disk "contiguous," or physically linked
|
|
together on a [hard] drive.
|
|
PATCH -- a file that is patched (combined) into another file
|
|
to change the original file in some way
|
|
PD -- abbrv for "Public Domain"
|
|
PIRATED -- see DEFINITIONS section in this issue.
|
|
RAM -- abbrv for "Random Access Memory." (memory used by software)
|
|
RBBS -- abbrv for RBBS-PC, a type of BBS (Remote Bulletin Board System)
|
|
ROM -- abbrv for "Read Only Memory." (memory used by hardware to boot)
|
|
SYSOP -- SYStem OPerator of a BBS
|
|
*TROJAN* -- see DEFINITIONS section in this issue.
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|
TROJAN HORSE -- see DEFINITIONS section in this issue.
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TSR -- abbv for "Terminate, Stay Resident" Synonym = "Memory Resident"
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TXT -- abbrv for "text"
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USU -- abbrv for "usually"
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UNP -- abbrv for "unprotect"
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UNPROTECT -- an "unprotect file" is a patch file that results in the
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breaking of copy protection (no doubt for back up purposes).
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UTIL -- abbrv for "utility"
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WORM -- Trojan Horse
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ZOO -- All files compressed with ZOO.EXE bear this file extension.
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ZOO-compressed files are NOT compatible with ARC.EXE.
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If you have any additions or corrections for this list, send them to
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Eric Newhouse at any of the following places: (in order of most frequented)
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* The Crest RBBS (213-471-2518) (1200/2400) (80 MB)
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[ This is my board ]
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* The West LA PC-STORE (213-559-6954) (300/1200/2400) (50 MB)
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* The Sleepy Hollow PCB (213-859-9334) (300/1200/2400) (108 MB)
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* VOR BBS (415-994-2944) (300/1200/2400) (20 MB)
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* The Source (leave E-mail to "Doctor File Finder" in IBM SIG #4)
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Doctor File Finder (Mike Callahan) will relay your name
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and update information to me.
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