[Techtalk] Linux email viruses

[Finne Boonen]

my housemate got send a pine virus once, it include commands that
would be excecuted when you opened the mail.
basically, it shut down the machine when opening the mail as root.

Finne

On Thu, 22 Jul 2004 11:47:48 -0400, Andrew <showwork at earthlink.net> wrote:
>         The Linux virus *URL* was a very interesting
>         Thanks
> On Thu, 22 Jul 2004 08:23:02 +0000
> Conor Daly <c.daly at met.ie> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 08:28:46PM -0700 or thereabouts, Carla
> > Schroder wrote:
> > > I meant email-borne. Easy now, I didn't mean to raise your blood
> > > pressure so high.  :)
> > 
> **> http://linuxmafia.com/~rick/faq/index.php?page=virus**
> 
> > "the Unix community long ago became wary of auto-executing programs"
> >
> > So, it's possible but very very unlikely...
> >
> > Conor
> 
>  >           http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
> 
> 
> --
> 
>         Andrew
> 
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