Re: [Sheflug] GREAT fun!!! Re: Via Fairfax Jobs - Looking for work? (fwd)

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I've noticed in the past that windows virus checkers recognise compressed
files from unix as having viruses.
We run both NT and solaris and it's a constant nuisance.
Rob


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Robin Cannings                                       robin.cannings [at] arm.com
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On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 11:07:58AM +0000, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote:
> .. so, did (Sun-Solaris-)dvips produce a postscript file, that contains a
> MSW virus?:-))))

           Well, given Sun's hate of MS, it's not that hard to imagine them
doing just that X-) However, it would be more likely if that virus was
to be found in some Linux version incarnation of dvips, put there by
some zealot.

           The whold story is quite funny though...
           José
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