[Techtalk] Linux email viruses

[Conor Daly]

On Thu, Jul 22, 2004 at 11:10:11PM +0200 or thereabouts, Finne Boonen wrote:
> 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.

Note the important "as root" bit.  As a plain user it would have been
useless..

Conor
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