From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 28 11:40:22 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id LAA25221 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 28 Mar 1995 11:40:22 -0800 Received: from ssbux1.env.gov.bc.ca (SSBUX1.ENV.GOV.BC.CA [142.36.112.250]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id LAA25215 for ; Tue, 28 Mar 1995 11:40:20 -0800 Message-Id: <199503281940.LAA25215@freefall.cdrom.com> Received: by ssbux1.env.gov.bc.ca (1.37.109.15/16.2) id AA162969607; Tue, 28 Mar 1995 11:40:07 -0800 From: Ken Wong Subject: Re: virus alert - PLEASE STOP THIS THREAD To: questions@FreeBSD.org Date: Tue, 28 Mar 95 11:40:06 PST Mailer: Elm [revision: 70.85] Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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/