On Wed, 3 Jan 2001 09:26:20 -0900, you wrote: :On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 10:08:24AM -0800, Michael Smith wrote: :> I second this. I mean, come on, if you can read the script, you can tell at :> least a little of what it does, and it doesn't sound too good. I guess this is :> one of the voluntary email viruses--you have to run it. : :NOTICE: you have just been infected with Cooperative UNIX Email Virus, :to cooperate please run rm -rf / as root. Thank you for your :cooperation. : :;-) : :> Tell the guy who sent it to you that he has to do a better job of social :> engineering next time, and then don't talk to him any more. : :or just laugh at him while dropping his address into the bottom of :your killfile.
I should have been a little more clear about a few things. Obviously I never had any intentions of running it. And second it was an elf binary, not a script. That was just what I could gather from the hex editor. Too bad his message headers don't seem too useful :-(. jt _________________________________________ Debian GNU/Linux http://www.debian.org FreeBSD http://www.freebsd.org