Time: Sat Nov 02 04:38:52 1996
To: tab@hollyent.com
From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar]
Subject: Re: Virus Warning: RATH.TXT
Cc: 
Bcc: 

<snip>
>>-|POSSIBLE VIRUS IS CIRCULATING:
>>-|
>>-|A routine email attachment by the
>>-|name of RATH.TXT may actually
>>-|contain a deadly virus which
>>-|attacks hard disks.  If you should
>>-|receive this file, please handle
>>-|with extreme care, either by 
>>-|erasing it, or isolating it.
>>-|If you have any doubts, check
>>-|out the McAfee web site, and
>>-|contact them for more advice.
>>
>>If this is an actual text file (ie .TXT) then it would be impossible to
>>contain a virus. A virus can only be promulgated by way of executable code
>>(ie .EXE, .COM, .DLL...etc)
>
>Could it come as a Trojan Horse??
>Doc

What about:

  C:\TEMP> rename virus.exe raft.txt

And then a second, seemingly innocuous
.EXE program which changes the name back?

??

When I was a Fortran expert, writing
this much code would have taken me all
of 10 minutes, fully tested and debugged
(or should I say, "bugged").

/s/ Paul Mitchell

      

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