[Tfug] Cross-platform user-mode virus detected "in the wild"

[Adrian]

On Monday 08 May 2006 10:23, Angus Scott-Fleming wrote:
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> You have just received the Amish virus.
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> Since we have no electricity or computers, you are on the honor system.
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> Please forward this message to everyone in your address book, then delete 
all
> of your files on your hard drive.  
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> We thank thee.
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Bah... Don;t blame the poor Amish, it's quite apparent they are just being 
joe-jobbed here. They don;t have any electricity or computers... how could 
they have sent an email?!?

Everyone knows this is just one of the many cloaks of the new self-morphing 
version of the age-old UNIX virus. How long will the world of suffer under 
its terrible toll.

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 - YOU HAVE NOW RECEIVED THE UNIX VIRUS -

This virus works on the honor system:

If you're running a variant of unix or linux, please forward
this message to everyone you know and delete a bunch of your
files at random.
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Crap... I just infected myself again... Well, I've covered the propogation 
portion. I guess I will rm -rf /usr/lib and see what happens.

Adrian