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- People who write "Trojan Horse" programs seem to want to gloat about it,
- and must include their "gloats" in some printable form in the executable
- program itself. The "str" program is modeled on the Unix utility "strings"
- which searches an executable file for ASCII strings and sends any it can
- identify to stdout. It detects several different types of strings used in
- the MD-DOS operating system and utilities.
-
- This is no final answer to software terrorism, of course, but I hope it can
- save a few people from unexpected grief.
-
- I have included the executable program in "uuencoded" form -- to recover the
- original, use "uudecode" to get the file "str.exe" and then down-load it to
- your PC using some form of binary transfer: "kermit -si" or xmodem.
-
- Ed Nather
- Astronomy Dept, U of Texas @ Austin
- {allegra,ihnp4}!{noao,ut-sally}!utastro!nather
- nather@astro.AS.UTEXAS.EDU
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