ubuntu littered with malicious viruses, some oriented toward Linux

[Myles Green]

On Sun, 2004-12-12 at 18:55 +0000, Frank Merenda wrote:
> Myles Green <rmg57 <at> telus.net> writes:
> 
> > 
> > On Sat, 2004-11-12 at 21:33 -0800, Michael Dean wrote:
> > > This mailing list is riddled with both Win and Linux viruses and trojan 
> > > payloads
> > 
> > such as?
> 
> I've been getting them, also. This morning I got several with an attachment
> called 'file.bin'. No, I didn't run it to see what it did. :) I don't know what
> the file is, but I would be very cautious.

ROFL :-)
The only attachments I've been seeing from this list are GnuPG
signatures and FWIW, they are most assuredly *not* "Win and Linux
viruses and trojan payloads" GnuPG (GNU Privacy Guard) for Linux is what
PGP (Pretty Good Protection) is for windows... which is an encryption
and signing tool. See http://www.pgp.com/  or http://www.gnupg.org/ for
more info.

/me wipes tea from monitor screen

HTH,
Myles

-- 
Myles Green <rmg57 at telus.net>
Calgary AB Canada
Ubuntu Linux 4.10 "The Warty Warthog"
My GPG/PGP public key is available on this site:
http://keyserver-beta.pgp.com/
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