From owner-freebsd-chat Thu May 4 10: 8:26 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in (theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in [144.16.71.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 91DD337B6F8 for ; Thu, 4 May 2000 10:08:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in) Received: (qmail 4551 invoked by uid 211); 4 May 2000 17:07:40 -0000 Date: Thu, 4 May 2000 22:37:39 +0530 From: Rahul Siddharthan To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: Alexander Langer , Matthew Dillon , Lloyd Rennie , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ILOVEYOU Message-ID: <20000504223739.A4541@physics.iisc.ernet.in> References: <200005041642.JAA71580@apollo.backplane.com> <20000504185155.A21289@cichlids.cichlids.com> <20000504103000.T13668@fw.wintelcom.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <20000504103000.T13668@fw.wintelcom.net>; from bright@wintelcom.net on Thu, May 04, 2000 at 10:30:00AM -0700 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE i386 X-Question: Do you enjoy reading pointless headers? Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Alfred Perlstein said on May 4, 2000 at 10:30:00: > * Alexander Langer [000504 10:24] wrote: > > Thus spake Matthew Dillon (dillon@apollo.backplane.com): > > > > > The 'virus' is the warning message itself, silly! > > > > Nope, ILOVEYOU is a real virus. > > > > It's quite funny. Here in Germany even the radio reported about it, it > > seems to have crashed MANY companies and governmental institutions. > > Now I'm jealous, when is mutt going to be able to automatically > launch perl scripts sent to users? I feel as if I'm missing out. Wasn't there something about an appropriate mailcap entry letting you execute arbitrary code? It became known as a Pine bug but mutt was affected, probably others too. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message