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NAME:	Easter comics
ALIAS:	NCSA, Famous People

This is a hoax warning about non-existant trojan horses. It has been distributed as a warning from NCSA. International Computer Security Association (formally known as NCSA) has debunked this warning.

        The NCSA in the US (National Computer Security Authority),
        yesterday released details of two (2) new Trojan horse threats
        that appear to be spreading rapidly.

        The first is a series of animated Easter comics which require
        a plug in to be loaded into your web browser (either IE4 of
        Netscape), they are quite comical, and as the plug in ships
        with the animation, people spreading these around via e-mail
        is very prolific. However the plugging contains code that when
        triggered will do three (3) things;

        1. send you machine name, current logged on username and the
        associated Password file to an internet address, and

        2. Sit idle for 48 hours (probably to allow you time to send
        it on to many other people via e-mail, and

        3. at the expiration of the 48 hour idle time, or the next
        time the browser is loaded after this time has elapsed,
        Overwrite the first 250 sectors on the hard drive with junk,
        rendering the pc unbootable, and most likely to crash within
        seconds.

        The Trigger is contained in several additional carton
        sequences that are also becoming wide spread.

        The second is along a similar theme, but provides comments in
        the voices of famous people for windows events. When loaded,
        by the very professional looking installation program, it also
        loads a program to be started each time windows loads. On
        every seventh load it deletes 10 files from the hard drive.

        Currently Virus scanners do not have the detection built in to
        see either of these and wont for a least 2-3 months.

Do not spread this hoax warning.