Re: ATTN: VIRUS FOUND IN GRIN ARCHIVES

[tturner@ecn.ab.ca ()]

Rubywand (rubywand@swbell.net) wrote:
: Glue Sniffin' Ed writes ...
: > 
: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
: > Hash: SHA1
: > 
: > To all users of the Grin archives, a virus scan has revealed the
: > following:
: > 
: > \Grin\gsezine\GS.WorldView\v1999\Jun\Happy99.exe
: > 
: > Virus Happy99
: > 
: > This virus transmits my attaching itself to winsock, and sending
: > itself with usenet and email posting transparently to the user.
: > 
: > All archive mirrors of the Grin archives are advised to delete this
: > file.
:  ....

:      Thanks! The file should soon be deleted from GSWV June 1999.

--> Just an observation, but AFAIK, it's a `PC' specific virus
    (ie: it will not run on any A2-based system).  Not that this
    makes it OK - it still shouldn't be there - but I think it's
    not something A2 users need to worry about.  I'm sure I'll
    be corrected, though, if I'm wrong!  :->
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