Date: Thu, 4 May 2000 22:37:39 +0530 From: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> Cc: Alexander Langer <alex@big.endian.de>, Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, Lloyd Rennie <lloyd@vbc.net>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ILOVEYOU Message-ID: <20000504223739.A4541@physics.iisc.ernet.in> In-Reply-To: <20000504103000.T13668@fw.wintelcom.net>; from bright@wintelcom.net on Thu, May 04, 2000 at 10:30:00AM -0700 References: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10005041355080.53863-100000@brunel.uk1.vbc.net> <200005041642.JAA71580@apollo.backplane.com> <20000504185155.A21289@cichlids.cichlids.com> <20000504103000.T13668@fw.wintelcom.net>
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Alfred Perlstein said on May 4, 2000 at 10:30:00: > * Alexander Langer <alex@big.endian.de> [000504 10:24] wrote: > > Thus spake Matthew Dillon (dillon@apollo.backplane.com): > > > > > The 'virus' is the warning message itself, silly! > > > > Nope, ILOVEYOU is a real virus. > > > > It's quite funny. Here in Germany even the radio reported about it, it > > seems to have crashed MANY companies and governmental institutions. > > Now I'm jealous, when is mutt going to be able to automatically > launch perl scripts sent to users? I feel as if I'm missing out. Wasn't there something about an appropriate mailcap entry letting you execute arbitrary code? It became known as a Pine bug but mutt was affected, probably others too. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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