Date: Thu, 8 May 97 22:19 EDT From: tom@tomqnx.com (Tom Torrance at home) To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD Trojan Horse Message-ID: <m0wPfH4-0007zZC@TomQNX.tomqnx.com>
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The source distribution package for the FREEWAIS-SF package obtained from ls6-www.informatik.uni.dortmund.de is effectively a Trojan Horse for FreeBSD systems. Untarring it onto your system will effectively drive your file system/utilities crazy, probably because of the question marks '?' in the test file names confusing the shell (bash/tcsh in my case). Try it, you will love it! "rm -rf" fails, but they can be removed with 'rm' in the current directory. I found it out when an older copy of 'tar' failed with a sig 11.
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