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To: Cheeky Kid who wrote (4484)7/17/1999 2:34:00 AM
From: mr.mark   of 110645
 
bo plenty...

(i couldn't pass up this quote from the below linked article. very informative trojan horse article, btw, but the quote just leaves me holding my sides in laughter)

"Ira Winkler, president of Internet Security Advisors
Group, said Trojan horses take a while to spread as
crackers learn to use them and inept users install them
on their systems."


who are these crackers ira is referring to? <vbg>

anyway, here's the link:

"Is the Back Orifice Door
Really Shut?

Security experts doubt updating antivirus software
is enough to stop this Trojan horse.

by Ann Harrison, Deborah Radcliff and Kathleen Ohlson,
Computerworld Online
July 15, 1999, 7:37 a.m. PT"

pcworld.com

:)

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