Hi David
20-Oct-97 10:37:05, David Chord wrote to Evert Clonen
          Subject: 2 questions
 DC> Evert Clonen wrote in a message to Daniel Troy:
 DT>> What is the difference between a Trojan and a virus?
 EC>> A trojan is a virus that disguises itself to avoid detection, it
 EC>> can do a lot of dammage since most virus scanners can't detect them
 EC>> very well.  A virus can be a trojan, but it is not usual since
 EC>> Trojans are a lot harder to code.
 DC> Actually, trojans are easy to code.
 Tell me about it, you could write a trojan in DOS EDIT.COM, save it as a
batch file and compile it with Bat2Exec, infected some F%^$wits system with
one by doing that :-)
 (Well he ripped everything off the BBS I co-sysop, and took it as his own).
 DC> I could happily write a trojan now,
 DC> but I'm
 DC> a long way from being able to write a virus. Trojan's get their name 
rom
 DC> the
 DC> Trojan Horse, and are programs that pretend to do something usefull (and
 DC> sometimes actually do something usefull) while they do something
 DC> harmfull. One
 DC> example was PKZIP 3.00, another is the README.EXE found in some ZIP
 DC> archives.
 DC> I believe you're thinking of various types of Steakth virus?
Regards,
   Shaun Ewing
E-Mail: shaunewing@usa.net
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