Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: bliss version 0.4.0 | From | Miguel de Icaza <> | Date | 10 Feb 1997 13:22:09 -0600 |
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> This is a message I got from goodness knows where. I'm not on the bugtraq > list as far as I know nor any of the other To:'s listed. Anyway, perhasp > someone can verify or disprove the headers?
Guys and gals,
Let's get one thing clear here, regarding the Bliss virus: it is an extremely lame virus without any of the cool features found on any regular DOS virus. Being worried about the Bliss virus is equivalent to be worried about a DOS batch file virus infector.
Would you guys be afraid of a batch file infector in DOS? Nope.
Now, can you look at the mailing list name? Yes, it is called linux-kernel, I can understand that people want to know more about this possible threat, but can someone explain me since when the kernel mailing list is being used for posting binaries? If it appeared in bugtraq or in Linux-security, I can understand it, but no matter how hard I looked at the virus posting, I could not see any relevance of this piece of code to the Linux kernel.
The only problem the Linux comunity faces regarding this virus is from the mcafee software hoarders that want to sell us a copy of their grep^H^H^H^HVirusScan program and have made an idiotic announcement somewere that may get newbie users worried about Linux. We just have to clean up this image.
Miguel.
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