From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 27 14:13:54 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id OAA11498 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 27 Mar 1995 14:13:54 -0800 Received: from trout.sri.MT.net (trout.sri.MT.net [204.182.243.12]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id OAA11490 for ; Mon, 27 Mar 1995 14:13:45 -0800 Received: (from nate@localhost) by trout.sri.MT.net (8.6.9/8.6.9) id PAA03658; Mon, 27 Mar 1995 15:12:58 -0700 Date: Mon, 27 Mar 1995 15:12:58 -0700 From: Nate Williams Message-Id: <199503272212.PAA03658@trout.sri.MT.net> In-Reply-To: Enrique Sanchez Vivar "virus alert... (fwd)" (Mar 27, 3:53pm) X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.5 10/14/92) To: Enrique Sanchez Vivar , questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: virus alert... (fwd) Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > The act of loading the file into > the mail server's ASCII buffer causes the "GOOD TIMES" mainline program to > initialize and execute. The program is highly intelligent - it will send > copies of itself to everyone whose Email address is contained in a > received-mail file, if it can find one. It will then proceed to trash the > computer it is running on. This reminds me of a student I once knew who wanted to write a 'Portable' virus which would run under Unix and DOS. This program must rely on certain characteristics of PC-mailer programs, but I can't see any way it could create a virus on a Uni box. Nate