------------------------------------------------------------------ | HACKED/MISCELLANEOUS FILES: | | | | Issue #9: June 9, 1989 | | | | Maintained by Eric Newhouse | ------------------------------------------------------------------ | Hacked (H) -- See definitions | | Miscellaneous (M) -- See definitions | | | | TYPES: | | | | 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 | ------------------------------------------------------------------ Name Size Category Notes ------------- ------ -- ---------------------------------------- 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.