--6c2NcOVqGQ03X4Wi Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 10:45:59AM -0700, Karl Dahlke wrote: > Stay on Linux for a while - > there appears to be a new windows virus running around. > It plants some program, somehow, then connects on port 27374 > and does lots more damage, and I do mean damage. > If you do run windows, you might want to block that port for a while. As in, hardware damage? Damn, it's been years since I saw a virus that could actually screw with people's hardware. Last one I remember made your video card do something that would toast old monitors. Wouldn't hurt new ones of course, but the threat of fried hardware was a _GREAT_ motivator for people to install the patch. I still get Code Red hits en masse to this day. Morons. --=20 Joseph Carter <knghtbrd@bluecherry.net> Free software developer * knghtbrd does the ET thing <knghtbrd> anybody got a speak-n-spell? --6c2NcOVqGQ03X4Wi Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAjunirYACgkQj/fXo9z52rMwNACcDSZACuPrTPpXq2RrShXAlUz9 wq8AoJl2xPEoLqA5JPrRy2t4bit0W75/ =uh+v -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --6c2NcOVqGQ03X4Wi--