>Hi,
>
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> >
>> > On Wed, Apr 07, 1999 at 08:45:01PM -0500, Lloyd wrote:
>> > > I just found an attached file in this mailing list (I've seen
>> this file
>> > > in newsgroups, too)
>> > > called Happy99.exe. I'm pretty sure this is either a trojan horse or a
>> > > virus.
>> > >
>> > > Open it at your own risk.....
>> > >
>> > > If you just delete the message without opening it, you won't have any
>> > > damage.
>> >
>> > And if you read it with a real operating system, you can laugh
>> maniacally at
>> > the thought of all the Windows users who have just hosed their machine.
>> >
>> > Come on, doesn't anyone use Linux to read this mailing list?!
>> >
>> > --
>> > Steve Philp
>> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>
>> I sure was laughing...I've been on Linux full time since I wiped
>> NT's stink off
>> my HD plates :)
>> What a stupid joke, that virus is..."Practice safe computing, use Linux!"
>
>Erm..it is just as easy to write a virus on Linux thought the damage would
>be far more limited if u don't log in as root. I wonder why there hasn't
>been a Linux virus...yet? Could it be that all virus writers are anti-MS?
I believe there has but it was coverd under the GNU and the patch was out
for it almost right away. It was written to porve that it could be
done.....
Andre
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