Internet problem year 2000.

Frank Stajano fstajano at uk.research.att.com
Tue Apr 11 12:46:34 CEST 2000


At 2000-04-11 11:03 +0200, Arthur de Wolf wrote:
> > This sounds very suspicious. Everyone is advised NOT to run the
> > "fix2001.exe" file that was attached to the previous DCML
> > mail.
>
>Harry's right. Better not open the file.
>There's a virus (TROJ_FIX2001) in it.

I can only confirm this (and advise people to get an as-you-download virus 
scanner like the one I have). Question is: how come this idiot was (a) 
allowed to post from such an address and (b) allowed to post a binary at all?

  Frank (http://i.am/filologo.disneyano/)  http://www.uk.research.att.com/~fms/





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