-=> Mocking David Kirschbaum to Kurt Wismer <=-
   
 > 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...
 DK> Perhaps you don't understand the nature of the program.  
 DK> It's purely a time-waster.
i understand the nature of the program perfectly...
it's classified as a joke program (do nothing program that claims to do
something) and it used to be detected by tbav as a trojan... (or was
that 386to486)...
 DK> This is _not_ threatening code.  You could do the same with
 DK> a batch file, honest.
it doesn't directly threaten your data, no... but it's as much a joke
program as one that says it's formatting your drive against your will
but doesn't actually format anything... causing a user to believe
something is occuring when it actually isn't can be just as harmful as
any trojan payload under the right circumstances...
 DK> My point of offering the disasssembled .ASM is simply to
 DK> PROVE once and for all that 486TO586.EXE is a fraud and 
 DK> hopefully put it to rest.
anyone who could understand the disassembly would already know that the
purported abilities of that program are impossible... for the rest you
might as well be distributing stone tablets with the word of god on it,
or a complete bullshit analysis of the file (a second placebo to counter
the 486to586 placebo) stating it's a hoax...
... Internet: Where Monty Python replaces brevity as the soul of wit...
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