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- From: drice@ponder.csci.unt.edu (Keith Rice)
- Subject: Re: File called "SUICIDE.IBM"
- Message-ID: <drice.716170061@ponder>
- Sender: usenet@mercury.unt.edu (UNT USENet Adminstrator)
- Organization: University of North Texas
- References: <ygPsqB1w164w@mma.guild.org> <BuDM74.KBv@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>
- Distribution: usa
- Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 00:07:41 GMT
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- In <BuDM74.KBv@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib) writes:
-
- >In article <ygPsqB1w164w@mma.guild.org> al@mma.guild.org (Al Steane) writes:
- >>A friend of mine mentioned that he had been cleaning up the disc on his
- >>machine and found a file in his root directory called SUICIDE.IBM taking about
- >>50k bytes. He immediately ran SCAN to check for viruses but found nothing. Has
- >>anyone else found this file on their machines? Can you tell me where it comes
- >>from and whether it is benign or malignant?
-
- >Have him TYPE the file. Could be a prank. Does he have friends
- >who use Macs?
-
- NO, NO, NO!!!!!!!
-
- NEVER TYPE AN UNKNOWN FILE!!!!!
-
- Using TYPE to display the contents of a file could turn out to be a BIG
- mistake. Usin TYPE on a file with imbedded ANSI strings could remap
- your keyboard (i.e. remap F3 (or any other key) to enter
- "echo y | del *.*", causing deletion of an entire directory).
-
- Use a utility like LIST.
-
- --
- D. Keith Rice -- University of North Texas -- drice@ponder.csci.unt.edu
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