papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa) (11/05/88)
The lastest UNIX virus seems to be great news: Johnny Carson had 3 jokes about the virus on the Tonight Show. The best one was: "We now have to put a condom on our Macintosh" [my monthly piece of junk mail :-)] -- Marco Papa 'Doc' -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= uucp:...!pollux!papa BIX:papa ARPAnet:pollux!papa@oberon.usc.edu "There's Alpha, Beta, Gamma and Diga!" -- Leo Schwab [quoting Rick Unland] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
jac423@leah.Albany.Edu (Julius A Cisek) (11/08/88)
In article <13265@oberon.USC.EDU>, papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa) writes: > The lastest UNIX virus seems to be great news: Johnny Carson had 3 jokes > about the virus on the Tonight Show. The best one was: > > "We now have to put a condom on our Macintosh" Actually the best one was made by Dennis Miller on SNLive: "Just remember that when you hook up to a computer you're hooking up to all the computers that computer has hooked up to in the last 5 years." -- What about technology, computers, .------------------. J.A.Cisek nuclear fusion? I'm terrified of |Spectral Fantasies| jac423@leah.albany.edu radiation, I hate the television. `------------------' jac423@rachel.albany.edu
devin@topologix.topologix.com (Devin Hooker) (11/11/88)
In article <13265@oberon.USC.EDU> papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa) writes:
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Incedentally, one of the protections from the latest UNIX virus is
called a condom - it's a file with permissions 0. It has the same name as
one of the original files the virus needs to start itself up. The virus
comes in (no pun intented) tries to write that file and boink...it bounces
off. Cute, huh?
-Devin
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Devin Hooker
Software Engineer
4860 Ward Rd.
Denver, Co. 80033 (303) 421-7700dale@boing.UUCP (Dale Luck) (11/12/88)
In article <210@topologix.topologix.com> devin@topologix (Devin Hooker) writes: ><-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > > Incedentally, one of the protections from the latest UNIX virus is >called a condom - Another anomaly is the sun2 was apparently immune to this version. So for all those sites that had relegated an old sun2 as the uucp connection to the outside world, I guess they were spared. -- Dale Luck Boing, Inc. {uunet!cbmvax|pyramid}!amiga!boing!dale Although I do contract work for Amiga-LosGatos, my opinions probably don't represent those of Commodore or its management or its engineers, but I think the world would be a better place if they did.