Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!hao!ames!sdcsvax!ucsdhub!hp-sdd!hplabs!hpda!hpcupt1!dclaar From: dclaar@hpcupt1.HP.COM (Doug Claar) Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: Trojan Horse a Myth? Message-ID: <6540001@hpcupt1.HP.COM> Date: 14 Dec 87 21:54:51 GMT References: <459@gtx.com> Organization: Hewlett Packard, Cupertino Lines: 14 I believe that the "trojan horse" that the professor was discussing was the infamous "cookie monster" program. (The program woke up every so often, demanding "COOKIE." If you didn't type in "COOKIE," it destroyed what you were doing). Although I've never seen that one, we had a case where someone created a system process that periodically spewed out valentine's day messages. The name of the process was only one character different from a legitimate system process, so it was very difficult to detect. It didn't hurt anything, and was rather cute. (Of course, we are an OS lab, so it was fairly easy to do...) Doug Claar HP Information Technology Group UUCP: { ihnp4 | mcvax!decvax }!hplabs!hpda!dclaar -or- ucbvax!hpda!dclaar ARPA: hpda!dclaar@hplabs.HP.COM