Date: Tue, 28 Mar 95 11:40:06 PST From: Ken Wong <kkwong@ssbux1.env.gov.bc.ca> To: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: virus alert - PLEASE STOP THIS THREAD Message-ID: <199503281940.LAA25215@freefall.cdrom.com>
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Please stop talking about this bogus virus alert. I have seen it in MANY different Usenet newsgroups a few months ago. I don't want these bogus messages coming to my mailbox... If you want to talk about it, please use private email. This is FreeBSD mailing list and not some comp.whatevervirus newsgroup. I can set up a kill file in Usenet but I can't in email. THANKS. > > > > > 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. > -- Ken Wong - kkwong@ssbux1.env.gov.bc.ca or kkwong@galaxy.gov.bc.ca Ministry of Environment, Lands & Parks, Systems Services Branch, Victoria, BC, Canada (604)387-9624 http://www.env.gov.bc.ca/~kkwong/
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