Year: 1997

[MD1] StuffIt Trojan Horse Warning

LADDIN ANNOUNCES WARNING TO STUFFIT DELUXE USERS ABOUT A “TROJAN HORSE”
BEING DISTRIBUTED ONLINE

StuffIt Deluxe 4.5 Will Be Available In The Next 90 Days On Diskette Or CD
Only-
Do Not Download Any File Claiming To Be StuffIt Deluxe 4.5 (DR)

Watsonville, CA – September 9, 1997 – Aladdin Systems announces that it has
recently discovered that a “Trojaned” (a trouble making program hidden
within a legitimate program) called “StuffIt Deluxe 4.5 (DR)” is
circulating on Hotline servers on the Internet. This Trojan Horse
apparently deletes files while pretending to build a list.

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[MD1] AutoShare 1.4

From: Mikael Hansen (meh@dnai.com)
Subject: AutoShare 1.4, a freeware list server

AutoShare 1.4, a freeware list server and auto-responder for EIMS (Eudora
Internet Mail Server, formerly AIMS and MailShare), has been released and
may be downloaded from
(ftp://ftp.dnai.com/users/m/meh/AutoShare/)
and also from the mirror site at
(http://www.dcl.co.uk/MacOS/email/autoshare/)
or by e-mail from
(mailto:autoshare-software@dcl.co.uk)

AutoShare is robust, speedy and requires little memory.

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[MD1] goo Library

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
September 8, 1997

goo Software Expands Development Tools Product Line
goo Library Slashes Development Time

SAN JOSE, CA – goo Software announced today that it has expanded its
product line to include goo Library, a C/C++ code library for use with
Metrowerks CodeWarrior Pro 1 development environment.

The library consists of over 200 routines that extend the functionality of
the Macintosh Toolbox and which can be called from any C++ or C program.

“Developing software for Macintosh is more difficult than for other
platforms,” said Michael Amorose, princip

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