From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 28 08:57:59 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id IAA20772 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 28 Mar 1995 08:57:59 -0800 Received: from uu10.psi.com (uu10.psi.com [38.8.4.2]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id IAA20765 for ; Tue, 28 Mar 1995 08:57:57 -0800 Received: from synrome.com by uu10.psi.com (5.65b/4.0.061193-PSI/PSINet) via UUCP; id AA10114 for ; Tue, 28 Mar 95 11:32:15 -0500 Message-Id: <9503281632.AA10114@uu10.psi.com> Date: 28 Mar 1995 11:18:42 -0500 From: "Rogers, Bradley" Subject: FW: virus alert... (fwd) To: "FreeBSD_Questions" Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Let's look at the rest of the facts: an Nth-complexity infinite binary loop which can damage your processor?! I think not... _______________________________________________________________________________ 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) Message Body:> > 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