Thanks, I'm familiar with that. however, I was refering to executable files and not self extracting executables, which is most likely what he has downloaded. It is almost certainly a virus anyways. Take care, Sina No trees were destroyed in sending this message. However, a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced. -----Original Message----- From: speakup-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca] On Behalf Of Gregory Nowak Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2003 6:14 PM To: sbahram at nc.rr.com; Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. Subject: Re: Linux-and-Virus Programs? Actually, if you have a self-extracting zip file, which would be an executable, you can run that file through the unzip program in gnu/linux, and it will unzip the contents of the exe for you. Greg On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 05:58:56PM -0500, Sina Bahram wrote: > Janina how can one unzip a .exe file? > > Also, viruses can do massive damage on temporary user accounts. I > don't believe this would be a wise course of action to pursue. I > believe you might be thinking about this advice on a Linux box, but > certainly not on Windows. > > Take care, > Sina > > No trees were destroyed in sending this message. However, a large > number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced. > -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup at braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
