Re: Trojans: common programming language ?

From: Aaron B. Lingwood (ten.EGNUM.edonretni_at_reraos)
Date: 04/28/04


Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 03:25:59 +1000

On Wed, 28 Apr 2004 13:23:15 +0100, tarquinlinbin
<noemail@myrealbox.com> wrote:

>Hi Aaron ,well im not thinking of writing a virus,
Good to hear.
> i 'm not clever enough to do that !.
Trust me, half the viruses out there were written by quite dull
beings.
>No ,my problem is that i have a file which needs
>to be investigated. Its a small exe about 50kb. It doesnt flag as a
>virus when scanned with several packages but it does have dubious
>purpose!.
>joe

No problem. I will try to answer any questions you have. Also, you may
want to mention the filename and any other information as chances are,
someone here has come across the file before.

Aaron Lingwood



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