On Fri, 30 Mar 2001, David Jones wrote:
> On 29 Mar 01 at 6:00, Richard Adams wrote:
>
> > If i understand correctly they are saying when the
> > program is installed it starts to work, as i see it
> > that will only happen if 'root' does it,
Is that not the way most of them work.???
> Hmm, my
On 29 Mar 01 at 6:00, Richard Adams wrote:
> If i understand correctly they are saying when the
> program is installed it starts to work, as i see it
> that will only happen if 'root' does it,
Hmm, my reading was that if it's run under Windows on a
Linux/Windows dual boot machine, the virus coul
On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, David Jones wrote:
> How accurate? What can we do about it?
>
> > http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/reuters20010327_3831.html
As far as i can see its a promotion stunt from anti-virus company's.
If i understand correctly they are saying when the program is installed it
st
Under Linux, don't
1. Save an email attachment to your home directory.
2. Chmod it to give it executable permission
3. explicitly run said file
4. don't do any of the above as root
Seems like another Honor System virus for Linux.
OTOH, if you're running windows...
beat the drive to death with
How accurate? What can we do about it?
> http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/reuters20010327_3831.html
David
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