Subject: Re: BO2k source code
From: "Michael H. Warfield" <[email-masked]>
To: Elaine -HFB- Ashton <[email-masked]>
Cc: Bill Lavalette -=- Operations NdrsNet NOC/CERT <[email-masked]>, "'Jason Axley'" <[email-masked]>, "[email-masked]'" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1999 13:17:08 -0400

On Thu, Oct 28, 1999 at 09:12:49AM -0500, Elaine -HFB- Ashton wrote:
> *>in the MS operating systems if it was legit you would be paying for it....

> *cough* Open Source *cough*

> *>It is not a trojan horse any more than PC Anywhere is.  See

> That would require that PC Anywhere actually worked well half of the time.
> :)

> I don't think BO is a trojan because it doesn't masquerade as something
> else. It doesn't lie dormant waiting for a perfect time to strike.
> Remember that the 'trojan horse' part of the name comes from the legend
> where warriors hid inside a statue undetected until it was time. BO makes
> itself pretty well known if you are looking for it.

	It may or may not be a "trojan horse", but it is definitely a
trojan.  (The Trojans hid in the horse, remember.)  The thing gets
wrapped up with games and utilities and worms and other nasties which
allow it to be propagated to unsupecting chumps who are stupid enough
to run active content they receive in the mail or off of insecure web
sites.

> e.

	Mike
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