[cgl_discussion] !!WARNING!! VIRUS AT LOOSE!

george anzinger george at mvista.com
Thu Jan 30 23:15:24 PST 2003


"Randy.Dunlap" wrote:
> 
> On 30 Jan 2003, Mika Kukkonen wrote:
> 
> | DO NOT OPEN A MAIL SENT FROM big at boss.com!!! It contains a Windows
> | PIF-file that is infected with a virus!
> |
> | OK, the unthinkable happened, and some &%&% posted a virus to this list.
> | I just turned the members-only bit on, and that should do for this
> | attack, but naturally is is not good enough solution. We are
> | investigating more long term methods (virus scanner, attachment
> | screening etc.) as I write this.
> |
> | I am very sorry that this happened, and all I can say that we (= OSDL)
> | are going to everything that is possible to make sure it does not
> | happen again.
> 
> big at boss.com has been posting these for the last 2-3 weeks to various
> linux mailing lists.  Use 'Delete' immediately.
> 
> Curiously they don't affect my machines.

I bet they are all running linux.  Curiously like a sows ear
to mix a metaphor.

I was curious about big boss too and ran it thru emacs.  No
problem there either ;)

-g

"Randy.Dunlap" wrote:
> 
> On 30 Jan 2003, Mika Kukkonen wrote:
> 
> | DO NOT OPEN A MAIL SENT FROM big at boss.com!!! It contains a Windows
> | PIF-file that is infected with a virus!
> |
> | OK, the unthinkable happened, and some &%&% posted a virus to this list.
> | I just turned the members-only bit on, and that should do for this
> | attack, but naturally is is not good enough solution. We are
> | investigating more long term methods (virus scanner, attachment
> | screening etc.) as I write this.
> |
> | I am very sorry that this happened, and all I can say that we (= OSDL)
> | are going to everything that is possible to make sure it does not
> | happen again.
> 
> big at boss.com has been posting these for the last 2-3 weeks to various
> linux mailing lists.  Use 'Delete' immediately.
> 
> Curiously they don't affect my machines.
> 
> --
> ~Randy
> 
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