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- !!! Nifty Loophole in DOS for Resident Software !!!
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- If a program that stays resident in memry wants to hide itself from
- most inquiring users, it can change its name to "FREE" (by modifying
- the name stored after the environment block).
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- When a MEM /C is run to show resident programs, the stealth TSR is
- labelled as "FREE", and hence appears to be a (small) block of free
- memory.
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- Then again, how many of those little free memory blocks one sees when
- running MEM really *are* stealth TSRs? ...
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- !!! Nifty Loophole in DOS for Resident Software !!!
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