[oclug] heads-up

[Andrew Hutton]

As far as I can tell, people not preventing the spread of these files when
a prevention exists are probably breaking various laws and it would be nice
to see some charges laid.  Gross negligence at a minimum.

On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 06:32:36PM -0500, Matt Larose wrote:
> I've recieve about 18 e-mails like this, mostly from the sales droids at
> work.. when will people learn that they make virus scanners for windows
> users for a reason, anyway thanks dave :-)
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Dave Edwards <amoamasam at sympatico.ca>
> To: <oclug at lists.oclug.on.ca>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2001 2:51 PM
> Subject: [oclug] heads-up
> 
> 
> > Hey Gang,
> >
> > _Please_  don't flame me for this.  Just got a stange email, as cited
> > below.   Attached to it is an attachment called joke.exe .  The note has
> > no To: line.  I know exe's won't bother us nothin'-but-Linux people, but
> > my solidarity extends to those of us with dual boots or legacy machines
> > lying around.  And it may be nothing.  Found no mention of it at CERT.
> > Spoke to someone at sympatico, who said that they know of something;
> > that's all he would say.
> >
> > Dave.
> >
> > ----------  Forwarded Message  ----------
> > Subject: Snowhite and the Seven Dwarfs - The REAL story!
> > Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 12:41:17 -0500
> > From: Hahaha <hahaha at sexyfun.net>
> >
> >
> >
> > Today, Snowhite was turning 18. The 7 Dwarfs always where very educated
> and
> > polite with Snowhite. When they go out work at mornign, they promissed a
> > *huge* surprise. Snowhite was anxious. Suddlently, the door open, and the
> Seven
> > Dwarfs enter...
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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-- 
Andrew J. Hutton, 
Ottawa Linux Symposium, International Linux Developers Conference
http://www.linuxsymposium.org/    July 25th-28th, 2001