RE: [Sheflug] Re: Generic Unix virus developed

["Paul Sims" <nospam [at] lombard.co.uk>]

Sense of humour bypass alert!!

Actually it works fine on my SuSE system in proxy mode - I gave my kids 
root permissions and let them play with rm for a bit... :)) I call this 
implimentation "Mendel's Revenge"

On Wednesday, May 17, 2000 1:34 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull 
[SMTP:turnbull [at] sk.tsukuba.ac.jp] wrote:
> >>>>> "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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