From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 28 06:01:24 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id GAA12334 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 28 Mar 1995 06:01:24 -0800 Received: from dvals1.larc.nasa.gov (dvals1.larc.nasa.gov [128.155.4.96]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id GAA12328 for ; Tue, 28 Mar 1995 06:01:22 -0800 Received: (from branson@localhost) by dvals1.larc.nasa.gov (8.6.11/8.6.9) id JAA26925; Tue, 28 Mar 1995 09:00:42 -0500 From: Branson Matheson Message-Id: <199503281400.JAA26925@dvals1.larc.nasa.gov> Subject: Re: virus alert... (fwd) To: bsletten@vivid.autometric.com Date: Tue, 28 Mar 1995 09:00:41 -0500 (EST) Cc: evivar@eniac.rhon.itam.mx, questions@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <9503280842.ZM22628@jester.autometric.com> from "Brian Sletten" at Mar 28, 95 08:42:34 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL21] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 918 Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > I've gotten this before and assumed (perhaps wrongly) that it was a joke. Does > anyone know anything more? Just looking at the facts... the only way a virus like this can effect you is if you are running an editor that allows interpreted codes in the text to be edited. At least this is true under unix. I cannot see any way else that this could affect you just by reading the file. Much less somthing like more or less being used on it. If this assumption is incorrect... I encourage responses. -branson PS> I have seen this exact kind of thing before... It is a farse. -- MATHESON, E BRANSON E.B.MATHESON@LaRC.NASA.GOV Mail Stop 931 COMPUTER SCIENCES CORPORATION NASA Langley Research Center Assigned to Operations Support Division Hampton, VA 23681-0001 Phone +1 804 864-9700