CCL:virus alert (fwd)

[TheBenO Peter Straka]

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    >>> The following virus warning was provided to us by DOE:
    >>>
    >>> There is a computer virus that is being sent across the
    >>> InterNet.  If you receive an e-mail message with the subject
    >>> line "Good Times", DO NOT read the message, DELETE it
    >>> immediately.  By reading the message, a virus is loaded into
    >>> the mail server's ASCII buffer causing the "Good Times"
    >>> program to initialize and execute.  The program rewrites your
    >>> hard drive, obliterating anything on it.  If the program is
    >>> not stopped, the computer's processor will be placed in an
    >>> nth-complexity infinite binary loop - which can severely
    >>> damage the processor.
    >>>
    >>> The program is highly intelligent - it will send copies of
    >>> itself to everyone whose e-mail address is contained in a
    >>> received-mail file or sent-mail file, if it can find one.  It
    >>> will then proceed to trash the computer it is running on.
    >>>
    >>> Warn your friends and local system users of this newest threat
    >>> to the InterNet!  It could save them a lot of time and money.
    >>>

This is a hoax.  Recently on the firewalls mailing list this message
has been discussed since it has re-emerged for apparently the second
time.  According to all of the responses from the security people on
the list, e-mail is not a threat unless you foolishly save a message
into a file and then execute that file without looking at it.

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Mna by zaujimalo co z toho je pravda.
Je mozne aby sa nejakym sposobom vykonaly prikazy ulozane v maily
bez zasahu uzivatela - prostym precitanim?

Akym inym sposobom moze byt "infikovany" UNIX-ovy pocitac
nepohodlnym programom alebo uzivatelom? (aj ine sluzby ako mail)

Ja viem zatial o frivolnosti X-ov.
Ale co tak odchytavanie TCP/IP protokolu ....

Na co si treba dat bacha aby bol moj pocitac bezpecny?
Co vy na bezpecnost systemu ked prevadzkujem FTP, WWW ...

Na vsetky vase poznatky caka ...
                                            TheBenO ( Ing. Peter Straka )
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