Path: deathrow.com!news.webspan.net!ix.netcom.com!su-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!pln-w!spln!extra.newsguy.com!newsp.newsguy.com!enews4 From: tnyari@voicenet.com (Trevor N.) Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom,alt.games.quake2,rec.games.computer.quake.servers Subject: Re: Gamespy 1.52 Serial number Wanted Date: Sat, 18 Apr 1998 02:15:34 GMT Organization: http://extra.newsguy.com Lines: 26 Message-ID: <35390c5c.185697600@enews.newsguy.com> References: <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> NNTP-Posting-Host: p-331.newsdawg.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.5/32.451 X-No-Archive: yes Xref: deathrow.com rec.games.computer.quake.servers:8948 On Wed, 15 Apr 1998 13:09:14 +0200, "Hydra" wrote: > >Necromancer heeft geschreven in bericht ><3533f655.186757572@news.monmouth.com>... >>You don't need to know assembler to catch a trojan! >> >>Most of the anti-virus' allow y9ou to disable such nastiness as LLF, >>Boot sectors, FATs and changes to exe/com files. >> >>Not to mention that if it happened in a warez group there'd be alerts >>all over the groups about that file and it's uploader. >> >>So don't use that as an argument to stand on (unless you like >>free-falliing). Beside's the version the guy uploaded was 1.00 anyway. > > >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 That's why I like MS OS's so much.... -- "Wintel: The Vast Leper Colony of Virus Ridden Computer Systems..."