Path: clanworld.com!news.webspan.net!opus.ies-energy.com!news.cs.utwente.nl!Cabal.CESspool!bofh.vszbr.cz!howland.erols.net!feed2.news.erols.com!erols!feeder.qis.net!newsfeed.nyu.edu!newsfeed.sgi.net!news.sgi.net!not-for-mail Message-ID: <353568A8.53FA@NO-SPAM.sgi.net> From: Adam Stouffer X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.04 (WinNT; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom,alt.games.quake2,rec.games.computer.quake.servers Subject: Re: Gamespy 1.52 Serial number Wanted References: <6fmpn8$m64$1@heliodor.xara.net> <3522A56E.28A2@jjj.com> <01bd5e5a$016f9780$1c320dcf@costerlo.scottdoug.com> <35241C19.5B55@NO-SPAM.sgi.net> <6g1772$g8p@examiner.concentric.net> <3524705A.E17DA70@aol.NOSPAMcom> <35254242.377F@NO-SPAM.sgi.net> <3525C17D.88E11EAE@ihug.co.nz> <3531371f.0@news.euroconnect.dk> <6grg6r$6ec$1@ionews.ionet.net> <3531ACA4.693B@NO-SPAM.sgi.net> <3532BE31.E7895934@ihug.co.nz> <6gvqml$5k023@reader2.wxs.nl> <3533B544.3616@NO-SPAM.sgi.net> <3533f655.186757572@news.monmouth.com> <6h24u6$f7f32@reader1.wxs.nl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 35 Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 02:03:54 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: dap-144-116.monroe.sgi.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 22:03:54 EST Xref: clanworld.com rec.games.computer.quake.servers:8894 Hydra wrote: > > > Read Adam's message. He said he was using a hex-viewer to check > the .exe's he got. And don't rely on just the anti-virus progs. Many of > them don't disable the simple dos-commands. It would be quite easy > to write a simple program that deleted the USER and SYSTEM.DAT > in your windows dir. And you wouldn't find a single line that says > "DELETE" or "ATTRIB" or anything. Nor would heuristic scanners like > TBAV find any suspicious commands. > My point is: "Don't trust anything." I won't run stuff that I find on NG's. > Nor programs that are send to me by people that I don't know > personally. > And if a trojan was send to anybody and wiped their HD. Wouldn't it > take a while before he would be able again to warn people? > > Niels / "Hydra" Most antivirus programs are setup to alert you if something is writing directly to a boot sector or something similar. Also Norton AV scans user.exe and those core windows files every time it boots up. Adam -- _________________________ | | | Remove the NO-SPAM | | | _________________________