Re: Virus alert, was: Re: SCSI Question
On Sun, 9 Jul 2000, Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven wrote: -On [2709 21:20], Leif Neland ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: These messages are infected with the kak virus. See http://www.cai.com/virusinfo/encyclopedia/descriptions/wscript.htm Am I the only one to NOT see this? Probably not. It wasn't in the "Content-Type: text/plain" part of the attachment, just the "text/html" part. -Paul. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Re: Virus alert, was: Re: SCSI Question
-On [2709 22:40], Paul Herman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Sun, 9 Jul 2000, Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven wrote: -On [2709 21:20], Leif Neland ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: These messages are infected with the kak virus. See http://www.cai.com/virusinfo/encyclopedia/descriptions/wscript.htm Am I the only one to NOT see this? Probably not. It wasn't in the "Content-Type: text/plain" part of the attachment, just the "text/html" part. Ah right. Spotted it. Which brings us back to a few good rules: - do NOT post in HTML - do not configure your mailer to mail lame virus warnings back to lists where precedence is set to bulk. Thanks for reminding me of the text/html. I looked there before but failed to spot it. *sigh* -- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven Network- and systemadministrator [EMAIL PROTECTED]VIA Net.Works The Netherlands BSD: Technical excellence at its best http://www.via-net-works.nl ``...by God I *KNOW* what this network is for, and you can't have it.'' -- Russ Albery To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Re: Virus alert, was: Re: SCSI Question
Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven wrote: -On [2709 21:20], Leif Neland ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: These messages are infected with the kak virus. See http://www.cai.com/virusinfo/encyclopedia/descriptions/wscript.htm Am I the only one to NOT see this? Both the original postings look normal in mutt whichever way I use to look at them. Try "|less". I think it says a lot that you have to make special effort to even _see_ the virus on FreeBSD, when on Windows it probably gets executed by default... -- Ben Smithurst / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / PGP: 0x99392F7D PGP signature
Re: Virus alert, was: Re: SCSI Question
Ben Smithurst wrote: Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven wrote: -On [2709 21:20], Leif Neland ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: These messages are infected with the kak virus. See http://www.cai.com/virusinfo/encyclopedia/descriptions/wscript.htm Am I the only one to NOT see this? Both the original postings look normal in mutt whichever way I use to look at them. Try "|less". I think it says a lot that you have to make special effort to even _see_ the virus on FreeBSD, when on Windows it probably gets executed by default... Netscape runs it as well. Seeing Netscape start java is a clear sign. It's probably harmless in this case, but I didn't wait to find that out. -- Marcel Moolenaar mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel: (408) 447-4222 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
