That makes more sense.  My son is always installing things that I 
end up removing.

Thanks

Brad

On Wed, 16 Jul 2003, Jan L. Peterson wrote:

> > So I've got a Linux virus?
> 
> No, the supposition is that you have a windows virus somewhere.  A 
> virus that tries to propagate itself by finding attachable SMB (or 
> CIFS, these days) shares that it can write itself to.  Your linux 
> machine is presumably running samba, and offering up a printer share, 
> which the virus is stupidly copying itself to (thinking it's a file 
> share).
> 
> Several viruses propagate via shares.  I'd snag a good anti-virus 
> package and run it on your windows boxes.
> 
>       -jan-
> 

-- 
Brad Mugleston, KI0OT

There are 10 types of people in this world.  Those that 
understand binary and those that don't.


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