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- From: CCTR132@csc.canterbury.ac.nz (Nick FitzGerald)
- Newsgroups: comp.virus
- Subject: Re: f-prot 2.04c ??? (PC)
- Message-ID: <0003.9208172008.AA09165@barnabas.cert.org>
- Date: 14 Aug 92 05:00:59 GMT
- Sender: virus-l@lehigh.edu
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- Approved: news@netnews.cc.lehigh.edu
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- dab6@po.CWRU.Edu (Douglas A. Bell) writes:
- > I found f-prot2.04c on wuarchive.wustl.edu in the pub/MSDOS_UPLOADS
- > directory.
- >
- > Is it for real ? Its release date is 8/12/92, and that's today.
-
- Four things:
-
- 1. Frisk very recently said that this version, maybe renamed to 2.05,
- might be released RSN.
-
- 2. Was that really the filename? Kind of a giveaway if it was. 8-)
-
- 3. Why do large ftp sites use inadequate OS's, ftp implementations or
- whatever? Upload directories should be able to be made "write-only"
- so the "world-at-large" can't do silly things through them, like "dir"
- and "get". One of the hacked, so-called PKZIP 2.x's was widely spread
- from ftp sites' upload dirs.
-
- 4. Why do people make -posts- like Douglas's when something like this
- happens? You don't have to look far through the digests/newsgroup to
- find Frisk's Email address - indeed, you don't have to look far in the
- F-PROT package for the same info. Think about the process people - if
- Frisk announces a new version and it's not already uploaded he and the
- site moderator will be inundataed with messages saying "Where's it
- gone?", "I couldn't find it", etc, etc. It takes a finite amount of
- time from upload to inform the moderator to having it moved to its
- final resting place, and it had just been uploaded. If this is a
- trojan, Douglas has just told the world that 2.04c is "out" - the
- implicit warning that he hasn't seen a release announcement will be
- ignored by a disconcertingly large number of users (they will want to
- be the first to d/l it from an ftp site and u/l to their favourite BBS
- so they get the kudos of being up with the play - and the u/l
- credits). Better he had shut up in public and talked with Frisk in
- private, letting Frisk make the appropriate decisions regarding
- warning the ftp site moderators, etc, etc. Don't give me any horse
- puckey responses about "freedom of speech" and "the public's right to
- know", either.
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- Nick FitzGerald, PC Applications Consultant, CSC, Uni of Canterbury, N.Z.
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