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Name: Ghost
Alias: Ghosts
Description:
This is a widespread false
alarm on a demonstration program. There is no virus or trojan by this name.
GHOST.EXE is a Windows program
which displays a graveyard and a set of ghosts in a window. On Friday the 13th,
the title of the screen was changed to 'Happy Friday the 13th!' and the ghosts
started flying around the Windows desktop. This program was analysed and found
harmless.
This kind of hoax is different
from the traditional e-mail chain letter hoaxes, such as Good Times, since several innocent programs have received lots of publicity
lately as they have been accused of being trojans or viruses.
Naturally, whenever any program
is declared clean, there's a risk that somebody will take the file and infect it
- since people will now trust it. To overcome this problem, you can verify the
files against the 32-bit CRC's of the confirmed clean versions.
The confirmed-clean versions of
this program have the following CRCs as displayed by PKUNZIP:
Length Method Size Ratio Date Time CRC-32 Attr Name
------ ------ ----- ----- ---- ---- -------- ---- ----
28096 DeflatN 14145 50% :20 5dce8738 --w- GHOST.EXE
28064 DeflatN 14142 50% :45 a6839c30 --w- GHOST2.EXE
28065 DeflatX 14121 50% :11 f47d5cbd --w- GHOST3.EXE
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