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In article <1989Dec25.194207.22573@sj.ate.slb.com> poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russ Poffenberger) writes:
>In article <25317@cup.portal.com> rwp@cup.portal.com (Roger William Preisendefer) writes:
>>I recently have heard a nasty rumor concerning a possible Trojan Horse
>>in the Nortan Utilities.  This trojan will erase your hard disk sometime
>>around the end of December, while displaying some sort of message.  The
>>source for this rumor is Computing News, a newsletter from the US Naval
>>Academy.  Does anyone have any information confirming (or debunking) this?
>>It is supposed to be in the commercial release, not some pirated version
>>floating around the boards.
>
>GOOD GOD! I hope not!


I think what Roger is writing about is the program named NORTSTOP, which was written
about here a month or so ago. I just looked to see if I still had the article in
question, but I have deleted it in the interim. 

Nortstop was a program which purported to be from Norton Computing and supposedly
performed some useful function (sorry, I don't remember the details) but which
instead would trash your hard disk, or some such unfriendly behavior.

I don't think it is worthwhile to spread further rumors about a trojan from Norton,
as it was pretty clear that this thing was NOT from Norton!

Fred Smith
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