It's not going to infect a linux system. But some of us may monitor the list at work where we are tied to MS software. I'm in that situation and have received the virus from almost 20 different sources, let alone about 100 copies sent throughout the corporate network of about 2000 employees. This is a bad virus. Craig > -----Original Message----- > From: Seth Vidal [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2000 8:48 AM > To: Michael H. Warfield > Cc: Miller, Teddy; linux-raid@vger. rutgers. edu (E-mail) > Subject: Re: Danger! Virus Alert! Re: ILOVEYOU > > > > kindly check the attached LOVELETTER coming from me. > > > > Danger! This is a highly virulent virus similar to freelinks.vbs > > but a much faster propagator. It's spreading like wildfire amongst the > > Windows weenies. If you are on a Windows system, do not touch this > > message! Delete the message unopened. > > it might stand to reason that sense this is a linux-raid mailing list that > all of us read it in an editor that required us to either: > 1. view it as text file > or > 2. save it to a file and read it in a text editor > > > Can it infect a linux system reading it in vi? > > :) > > -sv >
