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From: tom@tomqnx.com (Tom Torrance at home)
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Subject: FreeBSD Trojan Horse
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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.