Date: 28 Mar 1995 11:18:42 -0500 From: "Rogers, Bradley" <rogersb@synrome.com> To: "FreeBSD_Questions" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: FW: virus alert... (fwd) Message-ID: <9503281632.AA10114@uu10.psi.com>
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Let's look at the rest of the facts: an Nth-complexity infinite binary loop
which can damage your processor?! I think not...
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To: bsletten@vivid.autometric.com
Cc: evivar@eniac.rhon.itam.mx; questions@FreeBSD.org
From: Branson Matheson on Tue, Mar 28, 1995 11:08 AM
Subject: Re: virus alert... (fwd)
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> 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.
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