Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!hao!noao!mcdsun!sunburn!gtx!al From: al@gtx.com (0732) Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Trojan Horse a Myth? Message-ID: <459@gtx.com> Date: Fri, 4-Dec-87 13:38:40 EST Article-I.D.: gtx.459 Posted: Fri Dec 4 13:38:40 1987 Date-Received: Thu, 10-Dec-87 05:36:10 EST Reply-To: al@gtx.UUCP (Al Filipski) Organization: GTX Corporation, Phoenix Lines: 21 I just read a newspaper article by Clarence Peterson of the Chicago Tribune in which "Jan Harold Brunvard, University of Utah Professor of folklore and author of three books about urban legends" dismisses the "Trojan Horse" computer program as an "Urban Myth". He says "I think there probably have been some programs like that cooked up, but I can find no evidence that it's actually been done, and it isn't as though it couldn't be detected and destroyed." It seems to me that the Professor is being quite naive. We all know how easy it would be to create a Trojan Horse Program, and even, with a little more difficulty, make it infect the user's system in subtle ways. As for the question, "has anyone actually been hurt by one of these?", I only know third-hand accounts. Can anyone relate a first-hand account of damage done to his/her system by a malicious Trojan Horse? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | Alan Filipski, GTX Corp, 2501 W. Dunlap, Phoenix, Arizona 85021, USA | | {ihnp4,cbosgd,decvax,hplabs,seismo}!sun!sunburn!gtx!al (602)870-1696 | ----------------------------------------------------------------------