Evil Programs

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2 total messages Started by by... John The Squid Byrd Thu, 18 Jan 1990 00:59

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Author: by... John The Squid Byrd
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1990 00:59

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I heard a story once about a floppy copying nibble hacker for some micro...
The copier would ask you to insert the disk to be copied, scramble it,
and then give you a stern lecture about the evils of copying copyrighted
programs.

The documentation for Disinfectant 1.1 for the Mac tells about a HyperCard
stack called "Sexy Ladies" that systematically deletes all information from
your hard drive while you looked at the naughty pictures...

There is also a "fun" program for the Commodore 64 that "expands your disk
capacity to double its normal size."  After hemming-and-hawing for five
minutes on a blank disk, you can get a directory to find that the directory
has been totally filled with "APRIL FOOL" messages.

Supposedly a POKE on the old Commodore PETs, done repeatedly, damaged the
processor (so much for "you can't hurt the computer by typing at the
keyboard") after a few hours...

Also on Disinfectant 1.1 docs is mentioned an IBM-PC virus called "Israeli" 
that was programmed to erase disks on Israel's Independence Day ...

Anyone else know of any Evil Programs?










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Re: Evil Programs

#1065

Author: k... Ken Yap
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1990 03:53

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|Anyone else know of any Evil Programs?

You only have to subscribe to comp.virus to read some less than funny
stories. :-(

Here's the obligatory war story:

When Telerays T1061s were first acquired by the department, it didn't
take a hacker long to realize that you could squirt an escape sequence
to program a function key with a string and then execute that string.
The obvious target would be a super-user's tty, of course. Fortunately
this hacker wore white and told staff, who promptly fixed write(1) and
mail(1) to filter out escapes and make the terminal mode default to no
write at login.

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