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to: PATRICK AHLBRECHT
from: RICK COLLINS
date: 1997-11-02 08:48:00
subject: Re^2: 2 questions

Hi Patrick,
In a message to Kurt Wismer you wrote:
 PA> And that is the point ;). DOS normally doesn't do very much
 PA> except giving you a simple userinterface to the Hardware. So if a
 PA> DOS system routed mail, ok, you could re-route it (assuming you
 PA> know how this routing is done), but which DOS system does that
 PA> kind of thing ? So it is quite useless to write a DOS trojan
 PA> which does anything more than destroying data.
Actually, without trying too hard I can think of a couple of things a Trojan 
could do on a DOS system without "destroying data".  No, I won't tell you 
what they are. :-)
Rick
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