From owner-freebsd-security Thu Aug 17 22:42:27 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from athena.za.net (athena.za.net [196.30.167.200]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC31337B43E for ; Thu, 17 Aug 2000 22:42:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (jus@localhost) by athena.za.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id HAA10874; Fri, 18 Aug 2000 07:42:42 +0200 (SAST) (envelope-from jus@security.za.net) X-Authentication-Warning: athena.za.net: jus owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 07:42:40 +0200 (SAST) From: Justin Stanford X-Sender: jus@athena.za.net To: Alex Charalabidis Cc: Paul Richards , security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MadCow Virus In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Well said, by jove *grin* -- Justin Stanford 082 7402741 jus@security.za.net www.security.za.net IT Security and Solutions On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, Alex Charalabidis wrote: > On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, Paul Richards wrote: > > > You have just received the "MadCow Virus." As we don't have any programming > > experience, this virus works on the honor system. Please delete all the > > files from your hard drive and manually forward this virus to everyone > > on your mailing list. > > > > Thanks for your cooperation > > Dear Mr. Richards, > > We have all acquired immunity to the above virus and are no longer > affected by it, due to the fact that we have been infected with it > multiple times during the very recent past. Tts humour value has decreased > to match that of Culex Pipiens and this virus has no aggregate effect > on our systems so repeated infection attempts will cause no symptoms other > than mild irritation. It is expected to mutate into an Acquired Humour > Deficiency Syndrome agent in the near future, countermeasures are already > in place. > > Regards > > -ac > > > -- > ============================================================== > Alex Charalabidis (AC8139) 5050 Poplar Ave, Ste 170 > Systems Administrator Memphis, TN 38157 > WebNet Memphis (901) 432 6000 > Author, The Book of IRC http://www.bookofirc.com/ > ============================================================== > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message