Re: TROJAN HORSE WARNING!

[Ken Garlington <GarlingtonKE@lmtas.lmco.com>]

system@niuhep.physics.niu.edu wrote:
> 
> Alfred M Selgas <selgasa@SMTP-GW.SPAWAR.NAVY.MIL> writes:
> 
> Have you seen the warning itself?

See:
 
    http://ciac.llnl.gov/ciac/bulletins/h-47a.shtml

for more information on the AOL4FREE.COM trojan horse.

> 
> >Heads-up!
> 
> >Subject: Trojan Horse Warning
> 
> >>The CIAC of the Dept. of Energy has verified the existence of a program that
> >>can erase files on your hard drive if executed.  The program purports to
> >>enable the user to create "bogus" accounts on America Online that you could
> >>proceed to use without charge.  The "hook" is to get you to believe that you
> >>can get something for nothing.  Currently, the program appears under the
> >>name "AOL4FREE.COM."  This is not the same software that AOL saturates the
> >>earth with to promote a free 10 hr. trial of AOL.  Ignore any desire to
> >>download or execute any attachment that you may receive that resembles this
> >>description.  Another clue is that the program is ridiculously short (993
> >>bytes--not KB) for what it claims to do.
> specify the e-mail address below, my reply-to: has anti-spam added to it
> Morphis@physics.niu.edu
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