Viruses (was Re: [RML] unsubscribe

Andrew (andrew at pcug.org.au)
Wed, 09 Jun 1999 20:32:12 +1000

At 06:41 8/06/99 -0500, Ana wrote:

>It wasn't me, I use this public computer, probably somebody else did it.
>So sorry anyway.

It's not your fault - you wouldn't have sent happy99 deliberately - there
are much better viruses out there that include a few presents for people
using other operating systems as well ;)

That being said and done - I know of at least two people whose machines are
off the air right now because of today's incident (not me - if anyone is
going to trash MY file system, I'll do it myself, thanks).

I would encourage all concerned folks to learn as much as they can to guard
against future incidents of this sort.

And Unix wankers - do a search on astalavista.box.sk on your particular
variety of *nix before getting too smug ;)

Cheers, Andrew
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