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| HACKED/MISCELLANEOUS FILES: |
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| Issue #9: June 9, 1989 |
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| Maintained by Eric Newhouse |
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| Hacked (H) -- See definitions |
| Miscellaneous (M) -- See definitions |
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| TYPES: |
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| Careful (C) -- Not confirmed, caution advised. |
| Game (G) -- Recreational software |
| Patch (P) -- Modification to another program |
| usually performed through debug. |
| Text (T) -- Text / Documentation File |
| Util (U) -- Utility of some sort |
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Name Size Category Notes
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AUTOMAXX.ARC HC This DOS menu-making program comes with
documentation that Marshall Magee, author
of the popular AUTOMENU program, contends
is plagiarized. Marshall believes that
the AUTOMAXX documentation uses exact
phrases from his documentation, and if
this is the case, AUTOMAXX is clearly
illegal. However, as I understand it,
the courts are currently deliberating on
the case, so AUTOMAXX is not currently
illegal. of today. For more information,
please contact Marshall Magee at (404)
446-6611.
CLIPPER.ARC 186803 MU This is a Norton Guides module for
CLIP_NG.ARC the Clipper Dbase Compiler. Nantucket,
the makers of Clipper, forbid
distribution.
COPYWRIT 2??? MP Although the real COPYWRITE is going
around Bulletin Boards like fire, there
is another illegal file under the same
name. The former takes around 40 KB
ARC-ed, whereas this takes about 2 KB.
What I'm referring to is an archive of
1-3 files that explains how to remove
the serial numbers from copywrite. Now
it's allright to "unprotect" a program
for backup purposes, but removing serial
numbers can only lead to piracy.
DOG101A.COM HC This may be hacked; keep an eye out
for it as well as DOG102A.COM.
DOG102A.COM HC Apparently this is a renamed early
version of DP102A.ARC, a disk optimizer.
One person has reports that it trashes
hard disks that use DOS 3.1 (2KB
clusters).
FLUSH4.ARC H This is apparently FluShot v. 3.0. Be
careful with this; it comes with a trojan
horse disguised as self-executable
documentation.
LIST60 H Vern Buerg's LIST 5.1, patched to read
6.0. Mr. Buerg has released a legitimate
version 6.0 of LIST. Every legit.
version will have a letter in the
filename (e.g. LIST60H.ARC)
LIST799 H Vern Buerg's LIST 5.1, patched to read
7.99.
LOCKPICK MT This is a text file, usually with a
.TXT extension, that casually explains
how to pick locks. This is not
illegal, but it's definitely in
poor taste. It could be used as
evidence against a burglar, though.
LZM11.EXE 37376 MU SysOps work hard to maintain BBS's and
to offer quality programs to the general
public. Although we all may not like
upload/download ratios, common sense
indicates that if a SysOp wants to
maintain an upload/download ratio, then
s/he has that right. LZM, or Leech
Zmodem, attempts to circumvent this
right. LZM downloads files using Chuck
Foresburg's DSZ and aborts the transfer
instantly after receiving the last block
of information. Thus the BBS does not
count the download against the callers
account, thinking the download
unsuccessful, and the caller winds up
with a "free" copy of the file. SysOps,
please unite against this menace. I
strongly recommend that you threaten to
permanently remove any caller you catch
using LZM. Any version of DSZ later
than 1/8/89 can detect and nullify LZM
1.1. However, LZM 1.2 is already
circulating boards and it reputedly
defeats the 1/13/89 version of DSZ. Be
Careful.
MONEY.ARC MT This text file claims that with minimal
MONEY.TXT 11648 effort YOU can become a millionaire.
This text file, as some of you may know,
is simply another chain (pyramid) letter
that is of course illegal. A pyramid
writer sends a letter to four people
requesting money. Then, according to
the pyramid writer's plan, those four
will send letters to four more asking
for money for themselves and the
original writer. Unfortunately when the
chain breaks people lose money. What
one person gains someone else must lose.
That's why this type of letter is
illegal.
MONOPOLY MG Finally I am SURE that this file
violates Parker Brother's rights
to the famous boardgame. Don Gibson has
agreed that monopoly should NOT be
distributed anymore, so SysOps, please
remove this file from your download
directories.
MOVBASIC or MU This highly illegal file, sometimes also
SBASICA called SBASICA, breaks IBM's copyright
on BASIC and BASICA. It creates new
files called SBASIC or SBASICA that run
"IBM BASIC" on an IBM clone. C'mon,
don't you think that these clones don't
run IBM BASICA for a good reason? The
clones don't support BASICA because it's
illegal! This file comes with Alloy's
PC-Slave card. Alloy has a license
agreement, and users of the PC-Slave are
allowed to create copies of IBM BASIC
for themselves. NO ONE ELSE IS. Stop
complaining that this file is legal,
people; this is one of the more blatent
cases of piracy that I've seen.
NEWARKR.EXE H Phil Katz's PKWare Package with all
references to the PKWare license removed.
PKXARC36.EXE H Phil Katz's PKXARC 3.5 patched to read
3.6
PKXARC53.EXE H Phil Katz's PKXARC 3.5 patched to read
5.3
QMDM110.ARC H This is version 1.09 of Qmodem patched
to read 1.10. There have been rumors of
a worm in 1.10, but I have seen no
evidence of it. Other versions are OK.
XTALK MP Like Copywrite, there is a patch
circulating BBS's to remove the serial
numbers from Crosstalk.