[svlug] MSWord viruses?

[Samuel Eliott]

YOU HAVE NOW RECEIVED THE UNIX VIRUS

This virus works on the honor system:

If you're running a variant of unix or linux, please forward this message to
everyone you know and delete a bunch of your files at random.


(Apologies in advance, but I felt  this little piece of humor needed to be
shared with this thread. -Sam)

----- Original Message -----
From: "Rick Kwan" <kenobi at coruscant.lightsaber.com>
To: <rick at linuxmafia.com>; <svlug at lists.svlug.org>
Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2000 5:10 PM
Subject: Re: [svlug] MSWord viruses?


> > From svlug-admin at lists.svlug.org  Wed Jul 19 01:50:10 2000
> > To: svlug at lists.svlug.org
> > Subject: Re: [svlug] MSWord viruses?
> > From: Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com>
> > Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 01:33:57 -0700
> >
> > begin  Rick Kwan quotation:
> >
> > > Folks, I'm sorry to ask this here.
> >
> > Not a problem, since it can be answered as a Linux query.  (Ordinarily,
> > if you find yourself wanting to say "I'm sorry to ask this here", kick
> > yourself hard and repeatedly until you recover some common sense,
> > because it translates to "I'm about to deliberately screw up, but want
> > everyone to feel good about it."))
>
> Well... I *felt* like I was about to deliberately screw up because
> it was more a question of "how do I tell Word doc senders that
> they may inadvertently carry viruses?"  ... which is not a Linux
> question per se.  But I don't frequent the Microsoft newsgroups,
> and I really didn't expect them to answer this because
>
>     1.  It's sort of a hostile question to them.
>
>     2. I've discovered that most Windows developers have not dug
> deep enough into their system to realize how it really
> functions.  <character-assasination> MS seems to have them
> weened on developer kits that shield them from low-level
> libraries and their bugs. </character-assasination>
> Actually, I feel sorry for the guys.
>
> > > I regularly receive MSWord documents as attachments to e-mail.
> >
> > Their viruses will not concern you, since you're a Linux user.
>
> Yep.  I know.  I just wanna stop intelligent folks from continuing
> to send them to me.  (Engineers, no less!)
>
> > > Same question for .exe files.
> >
> > Quite harmless on your Linux box.
>
> Just the way I like it. :-)
>
> > (See, perfectly appropriate for a Linux mailing list.  Of course, had
> > you asked us how to help users contend with virus problems on legacy
> > proprietary platforms, that would have been somewhat annoying.)
> >
> > --
> > Cheers,                              "Open your present...."
> > Rick Moen                            "No, you open your present...."
> > rick (at) linuxmafia.com             Kaczinski Christmas.
> >                --  Unabomber Haiku Contest, CyberLaw mailing list
> >
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> Thanks, Rick.
>
> --Rick
>
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