From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 9 19:23:23 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from palrel3.hp.com (palrel3.hp.com [156.153.255.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3FFC337C564; Sun, 9 Jul 2000 19:23:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marcel@cup.hp.com) Received: from adlmail.cup.hp.com (adlmail.cup.hp.com [15.0.100.30]) by palrel3.hp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E81A115A; Sun, 9 Jul 2000 19:23:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cup.hp.com (p1000180.nsr.hp.com [15.109.0.180]) by adlmail.cup.hp.com (8.9.3 (PHNE_18979)/8.9.3 SMKit7.02) with ESMTP id TAA20155; Sun, 9 Jul 2000 19:23:16 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <39693394.C6EF59D1@cup.hp.com> Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2000 19:23:16 -0700 From: Marcel Moolenaar Organization: Hewlett-Packard X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ben Smithurst Cc: Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven , Leif Neland , Josh Paetzel , Robert Small , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Virus alert, was: Re: SCSI Question References: <002401bfe936$a1e7ebe0$06a481d0@inu.net> <00b001b42883$21414b00$33cefea9@josh> <012701bfe9d4$fe322160$0e00a8c0@neland.dk> <20000709221220.A39448@lucifer.bart.nl> <20000709232831.G13648@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ben Smithurst wrote: > > Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven wrote: > > > -On [20000709 21:20], Leif Neland (leifn@neland.dk) wrote: > >> These messages are infected with the kak virus. See > >> http://www.cai.com/virusinfo/encyclopedia/descriptions/wscript.htm > > > > Am I the only one to NOT see this? > > > > Both the original postings look normal in mutt whichever way I use to > > look at them. > > Try "|less". I think it says a lot that you have to make special effort > to even _see_ the virus on FreeBSD, when on Windows it probably gets > executed by default... Netscape runs it as well. Seeing Netscape start java is a clear sign. It's probably harmless in this case, but I didn't wait to find that out. -- Marcel Moolenaar mail: marcel@cup.hp.com / marcel@FreeBSD.org tel: (408) 447-4222 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message