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 DK>> It's not.  Good speculation, but it's not true.  486TO586 is
 DK>> a sheer fraud. Disassembled source code available on request
 DK>> (via email).
 > y'know, that's just a hop skip and a jump from the rule about
 > not offering viruses in this echo... i realize it's not a
 > virus, but it is malware, it is a type of joke program...
 > i'm not trying to tell you what to do or anything but
 > personally i wouldn't make something like that available even
 > if it's not strictly a virus... i'm not sure but i don't think
 > there's any specific rule against the distribution of trojans
 > in this echo, but that doesn't mean it should be done...
Perhaps you don't understand the nature of the program.  It's purely a 
time-waster.
It says "OK, I'm doing this highly unlikely thing now ..."
And then it goes and waits for a while.
And then it says "Last unlikely test succcessful.  Now I'm doing something 
else ..."
And it goes and waits.
This is _not_ threatening code.  You could do the same with a batch file, 
honest.
(Well, everything except the primitive CPU testing procedure the program 
uses, which has a modicum of validity, and which a batch file can NOT do.)
My point of offering the disasssembled .ASM is simply to PROVE once and for 
all that 486TO586.EXE is a fraud and hopefully put it to rest.
Yeah, I know how unlikely that is, given that the breeding rate of goddamned 
fools and idiots is far faster than the FIDO communication rate .. but one 
can only try.
Besides, I was somewhat taken aback to find a "True Believer" in 486TO586 
right here on this Echo!  Hadda do something serious about _that_, ne?
Toad
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