First, it's a trojan, not a virus--get your terminology straight: virii automagically execute and do their damage, trojans need intervention to execute (Melissa virus indeed...). Secondly, as a trojan, you have to execute it on a winbox, so there shouldn't be much problem on a Debian list. Third, it ain't his fault--it takes over Outlook and sends a copy with everything he sends. Fourth, thank God you didn't quote the entire thing for whatever reason--happy99 is a "huge attachment by email" :P
On Sun, 9 May 1999, Kenneth Sims wrote: > Why did you (Alexander Gutfraind <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) just send a virus > (HAPPY99.EXE) to the debian-user list? > > The entire text of the message is attached.... > > Ken > > > > ============== > X-Persona: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Received: from murphy.debian.org [209.176.56.6] by cc.cumber.edu > (SMTPD32-4.07) id AE2F5620114; Sun, 09 May 1999 16:21:03 EDT > Received: (qmail 27408 invoked by uid 38); 9 May 1999 20:19:35 -0000 > Resent-Date: 9 May 1999 20:19:34 -0000 > Resent-Cc: recipient list not shown: ; > X-Envelope-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Sun, 9 May 1999 16:19:11 -0400 (EDT) > Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > From: Alexander Gutfraind <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: wav > mp3 > X-Spanska: Yes > Resent-Message-ID: <"VRGu4C.A.xqG.S3eN3"@murphy> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org > X-Mailing-List: <debian-user@lists.debian.org> archive/latest/48251 > X-Loop: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Precedence: list > Resent-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > X-UIDL: 901837646 > Status: U > > > Happy99.exe > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < > /dev/null > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > When you are having a bad day, and it seems like everybody is trying to tick you off, remember that it takes 42 muscles to produce a frown, but only 4 muscles to work the trigger of a good sniper rifle. Who is John galt? [EMAIL PROTECTED], that's who!