[Sheflug] Re: Generic Unix virus developed

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <nospam [at] sk.tsukuba.ac.jp>]

>>>>> "Richard" == Richard  <richard [at] sheflug.co.uk> writes:

    Richard> "Stephen J. Turnbull" wrote:
    >> .. and you've just caught it.
    >> 
    >> It works on the honor system: please send a copy of this
    >> message to every Unix user you know, and randomly delete a
    >> bunch of files from your file system.  Don't cheat!

    Richard> So, what's the name and address of the raging nutter who
    Richard> produced this ??  It had no effect on my SuSE system but
    Richard> I should think that the Red Hat and Debian users are
    Richard> somewhat annoyed (to put it mildly ?? )

What, SuSE users cheat?

Debian provides the "antivirus.deb" which 
/usr/antivirus/a\ bunch\ of\ files, and a bash alias

function randomly_delete () {
    rm /usr/antivirus/a\ bunch\ of\ files;
}

so we had no problem.

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