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- Date: 05-17-87 (13:02) Number: 8065
- To: SYSOP Refer#: NONE
- From: DAVE STANWIX Read: YES
- Subj: TROJAN IN ROCHESTER,NY Status: PUBLIC MESSAGE
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- Paul,
- Sorry I havent been on in awhile, I got hit really bad by a Trojan
- Horse.... The darn thing blanked my screen on me and then selectively
- deleted every 200th cluster on my hard drive ! Needless to say I am
- quite upset and in a stir here.... I lost alot of things, but had recent
- backups... Just some things that I didnt catch on a regular basis that
- have to be taken care of... My apologies to you for not being on here in
- awhile, but I have kinda been debating about some things like "Is this
- all worth it?' I thought about it real hard.... This is the third
- time in 6 months I have gotten hit with a trojan horse, what hurts more
- is that all three times it was a friend of mine that I was led to
- believe was a newcomer to computers and modeming, but little did I know,
- he was working in league with a user I booted off the system. He is
- actually quite a knowledgeable programmer and uploaded the programs to
- me which I thought I could use, so stupid me, I didnt run chk4bomb on
- them cazuse I was such in a rush to use them, and look what happened !
- Well, on the lighter side, I know who it is, and have filed charges
- against him with the police and the local DA says the charges will
- stick, so I am not at all in a glump still. All the damages I am
- seeking are damages for the time I spent repairing the hard drive . Is
- there ever an end to this ? Four other local boards have gotten hit by
- this gook also and 3 have gone down.... I am the last to stand here and
- I really dont feel like being the target of TH's ! Well, just wanted to
- let you know that I am still alive and I hope to have my board back up
- and resume normal calling to other boards shortly. Hey, hows the
- network mail thing coming ? I am really interested on that, but have
- been occupied getting my board back up... Let me know how it works...
- Dave Stanwix
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- Date: 05-19-87 (04:40) Number: 8105
- To: SYSOP Refer#: NONE
- From: DAVE STANWIX Read: YES
- Subj: MY BOARD Status: PUBLIC MESSAGE
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- Paul,
- The names of the programs that were the Trojan Horses that I got on my
- system and other local boards were ENVLOP21.ARC a supposed label
- maker program quick and easy. This file unarcs to about 3K and what
- it does is when you run it, it blanks your screen and your hard drive
- light goes on and the program selectively attacks clusters at equal
- intervals. The person that wrote this program is 12 years old and his
- father is a computer professor at RIT here in Rochester. We have
- contacted his parents several times but they seem unwilling to do
- anything about it and also think their child is an angel and dont think
- he would do anything like that. THe other program was also a 3K large
- program unarced and was an Envelope adresser called ENVELOPE.ARC .
- This program goes for broke and tries to corrupt every file on your hard
- drive !!!!! What this one does is blanks your screen and then flashes
- the screen several times while your hard drive light is on, and when you
- get through, you have jello coming out of your hard drive and when you
- go to do a Norton Disk Test, it shows multiple file corruptions and
- cluster errors. Alias's of this "child" are Peter Traeg, Peter Norton,
- and Noah Rubins. The alias of Peter Norton, he uses and he gets all the
- necessary info for registering from the back of a Norton Utilities box
- like address and phone number. BEWARE OF THIS KID HE IS A MENACE !! His
- real name is Noam Mendleson from Rochester NY. If anyone wants further
- info about him let me know, but also tagged on his list of hits was a
- local Genesis board for which Noam got a copy of the Genesis PC BBS
- software, tore apart a few of the internal programs like sysop utils and
- re-wrote them and then uploaded them to the Genesis board as a POWERFUL
- GENESIS UTILITY ! Well, the Sysop , with out checking, ran the utility
- and the screen blanked and renamed his user log complete with passowrds
- to another filename, and copied it into the download path and then the
- last part of the program did something with the userlog and gave every
- user SYSOP ACCESS ! This was all done without the Sysop knowing what
- was going on till he found out through a little light, which happened to
- be Noam logging on and trying to do things with his new Sysop access.
- Well, needless to say this caused quite a stir up here and everyone had
- to change their passwords.....
- Dave Stanwix
- Sysop of the Former Station Rochester PCBoard
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