Sure! You too were, if had had to face a medium-size hard disk destruction (not the content, I previously made a backup!) due to a blank message with attachments like this. And if you wander how could it happen, I discovered that some present HDU control the heads positioning via a rewrittable memory table to ease damage remapping... What about something capable of random writing this memory?! :-(( And for all list'sake I prefer to be paranoid! And you? ;-) C.U.
----- Original Message ----- From: "dwe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "linux-dvb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, February 08, 2003 9:48 AM Subject: [linux-dvb] Re: possible virus > You're a little bit too paranoid... :-) > > Even if that were viruses they wouldn't harm your system if opened with a > text editor. > > The first attachment of Miernik's mails is the text (extension .txt) and the > second is his PGP signature - also a simple text file (extension .dat) > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Alberto Vorano > To: linux-dvb > Sent: Friday, February 07, 2003 9:22 PM > Subject: [linux-dvb] possible virus > > > Hi all > looking the list after many days I found some mails signed > "Miernik" notable for repeating some list titles > Opening one revealed an empty body with two attachments > of little lenght, under 500 bytes that I took my very best care > non to open. Basing on my preceeding unconfortable experiences I strongly > believe they are virus carriers and immediately removed them from my > computer. So, If nobody > can positively say the opposite, I invite you all to do the same and > possibly cause the stop of this pest. > Alberto Vorano > > > > -- > Info: > To unsubscribe send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe linux-dvb" as subject. > -- Info: To unsubscribe send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe linux-dvb" as subject.
