From: system@niuhep.physics.niu.edu
Subject: Re: TROJAN HORSE WARNING!
Date: 1997/04/24
Date: 1997-04-24T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5jnv4e$dlb@corn.cso.niu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 35e12270@smtp-gw.spawar.navy.mil
Alfred M Selgas <selgasa@SMTP-GW.SPAWAR.NAVY.MIL> writes:
Have you seen the warning itself?
>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.
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Morphis@physics.niu.edu
Real Men change diapers
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1997-04-24 0:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-04-23 0:00 TROJAN HORSE WARNING! Alfred M Selgas
1997-04-24 0:00 ` system [this message]
1997-04-25 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1997-04-26 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
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