On (25 Jan 97) Curtis Canning wrote to Rick Collins...
 CC> Hi Rick
 cc> Lets make up a theoretical question, What if the virus was so
 cc> advanced, lets say a trojan with stealth capabilities, and it
 cc> got past my virus scanner and it went straight to TBAV and
 cc> infected it.
 RC> OK, lets.  But let's also keep one foot in reality and say what we
 RC> mean.  Are you talking about a virus or about a Trojan?  They are
 RC> _not_ the same things.
 CC> Well my understanding of a virus and a trojan is that,
 CC> a trojan sits on your computer and waits for a certain
 CC> time and date and then it activates it self and infects
 CC> your files, and a virus is when it keeps on infecting
 CC> files when you activate a program or reboot the computer.
 CC> "please correct me if I'm wrong"
Your incorrect, a active virus ( as no program can activate it's 
self and to wait for a time/date or..... the virus must be ACTIVE) 
can wait for a triger event to excute its payload.  The triger can 
be: the number of times it has repatriated, a date, or ????, it's 
unlimited what a triger can be!
A torgen is like a ansi bomb.  A torgen is a program that says its 
a spreadsheet and when you run it does something to your computer 
like deltree y c:\ or uses its own code to format or overwrite 
your harddisk.
Gordon
... Fundamentalists can legally park in handicapped zones!
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