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echo: nopiracy
to: GREY HODGE
from: BRIAN CHO
date: 1996-05-28 17:28:00
subject: Re: Win96

 >I saw it around here a few weeks ago. Really lame attempt at a trojan.
 >First, MS said there'd be no Win96 at all. Second, the service pack was
 >a graphical program. Third, anybody who can use a file viewer, or even
 >CABView from PowerToys can view if a cab file is real. The pathetic
 >individual who made the one we had circulating around here had labeled
 >it as from MS, and labeled to Win96. There was a BMP included that was
 >the startup logo, but inplace of the 95, it said 96. The 6 was merely the
 >9 copied upside-down over the 5, probably in PaintBrush. It was a cheap
 >text mode, monochrome program, that was just one of those batch file
 >compiler outputs. All it did was delete the boot files, and copy a one
 >megabyte garbage file over to the root directory to make undeletetion of
 >the boot files impossible. The Trash file was labeled as WIN96.CAB, yet
 >you could view the trash nonsense it contained. Pitiful...
Supposedly, it worked.. but I got rid of it, since i don't have win95 
installed on my system.
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