On 8/28/00 11:05 PM, Grant [Rambunctious] Hutchinson
[mailto:grant@splorp.com] wrote:
>>From Trojan horse rears its head on Palms
>
>"A software programmer has created the first known Trojan
>horse for a Palm, raising questions about a possible downside
>to the company's legions of loyal software developers. A
>malicious program masquerading as an illegal, but free,
>version of the popular gaming application Liberty has been
>making the rounds of Palm newsgroups and chat rooms since
>late last week. The arrival of the software, which has the
>potential to wipe out all the programs stored on the device,
>is believed to be the first Trojan horse for the Palm..."
>
>http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1006-202-2635223.html
I saw something about this on www.pdabuzz.com too. I think they said it
was (inadvertantly?) released by the author of the Liberty emulator
itself!
- Bill
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