Other progs identify trojans? (Mac)

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From: Peter Johnston
Date: Wed, 07 Feb 1990 23:38

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To the best of my knowledge, only SAM and the VD string I specified
will identify these two trojans at the present time. I would assume
that the anti-viral software developers will be updating their
products fairly quickly, and would expect to see announcements fairly
quickly though.

One point I would like to re-iterate, as several people have contacted
me about it and I may not have been very clear in my original posting:
Neither the "Mosaic" nor the "FontFinder" trojans are viruses. Neither
has the ability to reproduce or self-propigate. The only way that
either of these applications can be duplicated is by a user copying
the file, or by up/down-loading the files to/from a BBS...
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 University Computing Systems, 352 - GenSvcBldg,
 The University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, CANADA
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