Hi, The windoze world is full of all kinds of viruses. Is it the same in Linux? I just received an email from [EMAIL PROTECTED] (probably a fake) with an attachment (AHAOFIA.EXE) described as application/octet-stream, base64 encoding, size 30K. This seems off-topic but pls. read on because I'd like to know how to handle this when I receive such emails. The email looked looked suspicious because of the source and the subject is empty and I've read somewhere that Unices (including Linux) bothered by viruses. So I bounced this file back to myself so that I can download it again from windoze where I've got two anti-virus programs to check on this. I did that this morning (from windoze) and when I try to save the file my PC just locks with a black screen and two horizontal lines spaced apart by about 3 inches. None of my anti-virus apps detected it and all my av definitions are uptodate (Norton AV and PC-cillin98). I tried to detect the virus by scanning Inbox directly, doing it in DOS, etc. but still no detection. So now I'm back in Linux. I can just delete the file but before doing that I'd like to know what options do I have. Can I save this AHAOFIA.EXE to my hdd w/o harm to my system? ... so that I can send it as an attachment to my email to Norton and PC-cillin? Can I possible track where this came from? Here's the bottom-most Received hdr: andrzejs (pa197.gdansk.ppp.tpnet.pl [212.76.24.197]) .... SMTP id C55165DA54. How can I include all headers for my reply. I had to get out of this msg to take a look at the above Received hdr? Thanks all. -- Horace G. Friend III [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP DH/DSS Key Fingerprint [Send email for public key.] 046A FAE0 1E45 FC3E 0560 BAA5 3BA7 9671 5D87 2BAA
