New Trojans (Mac)

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From: WARTHMAN
Date: Tue, 06 Feb 1990 13:56

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Peter Johnston posted information about two strains of a new trojan
which can damage the Macintosh file system. One strain exists in a
program called "Mosaic" and the other in a program called
"FontFinder". I'd like to know if anyone else has had experience with
these two trojans, and which of the existing commercial and public
domain anti-virus tools can detect/prevent them from doing their
damage. Since the "FontFinder" trojan has a trigger date of 10 Feb,
it's important that we quickly publicize this trojan's effects and
countermeasures.  Thanks in advance.

 --- Jim Warthman

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Subject: New Trojans (Mac)
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