VIRUS ALERT on this list!!!!!!!

[Kendric Beachey]

On Tuesday, 1 January 2002 13:23, Monty J. Harder wrote:
> aaron at aarons.net wrote:
> >Do people still honestly believe we're stupid enough to open attachments
> from people we don't know?
>
> Anyone stupid enough to think that attachments "from" people they =do= know
> are =really= from those people can still get bit. Nimda, for instance,
> finds received messages to which no reply has been sent, and sends a reply
> with the same subject line.  You see a message that is "obviously" a
> continuation of an existing thread, and open it.  And if you open the
> attachment, you're screwed.

But only if you run Windows.  I could be mistaken, but I had thought this was 
a Linux user group?  :-)

-- 
Kendric Beachey
ak at kc.rr.com

DVD decryption in seven lines of Perl code:
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$d^$d/8))<<17,$e=$e8^($t&($g=($q=$e14&7^$e)^$q*8^$q<<6))<<9,$_=$t[$_]^ 
(($h=8)+=$f+(~$g&$t))for at a[128..$#a]}print+x"C*", at a}';s/x/pack+/g;eval