Date: Mon, 27 Mar 1995 15:12:58 -0700 From: Nate Williams <nate@trout.sri.MT.net> To: Enrique Sanchez Vivar <evivar@eniac.rhon.itam.mx>, questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: virus alert... (fwd) Message-ID: <199503272212.PAA03658@trout.sri.MT.net> In-Reply-To: Enrique Sanchez Vivar <evivar@eniac.rhon.itam.mx> "virus alert... (fwd)" (Mar 27, 3:53pm)
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> The act of loading the file into > the mail server's ASCII buffer causes the "GOOD TIMES" mainline program to > initialize and execute. The program is highly intelligent - it will send > copies of itself to everyone whose Email address is contained in a > received-mail file, if it can find one. It will then proceed to trash the > computer it is running on. This reminds me of a student I once knew who wanted to write a 'Portable' virus which would run under Unix and DOS. This program must rely on certain characteristics of PC-mailer programs, but I can't see any way it could create a virus on a Uni box. Nate
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