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To: Oliver & Co who wrote (5856)	1/8/1999 2:06:00 AM
From: FNS	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6136

Oliver & Co: < a "Trojan Horse" is not really a virus, but it makes the computer do some things, like send your info to that web site.> Viruses, Worms, Trojan Horses, etc, are some of the headaches which management faces in maintaining integrity and reliability of program code and data. Not only is a company vulnerable to infected foreign sources but also vulnerable to deliberate acts via disgruntled employees; i.e., namely the expert techies. It so happens that any Trojan Horse program can be inserted maliciously by any "authorized" software/aplication programmer (and unknowingly by anyone else) or it can be entered into one's system upon receipt of data in any manner such as e/mail, which upon receipt the executable code is triggered to go off at some point and cause havoc or defraud the system....for instance like bilking a financial system .001 cents per transaction and crediting to a fictitious account....or corrupting the system via a future date and time; i.e., the Columbus Day virus of Oct 12th which years ago caused so much hype. Not a heck of a lot you can do about Trojan Horses except know and trust your software people and maintain 'due care' test and production acceptance procedures....data coming into a system in the form of executable code via unknown and unauthorized sources is a "no-no", particularly in a 'critical' or 'sensitive' computing system. Don't take any wooden nickels! and don't expect anti-virus programs to catch every little critter...some of the stealth viruses can be pretty sneaky. FNS