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New Unix Virus ;-)
By Larry Smith

Mechanical Music Digest wrote:

> [ While the rest of the PC world worried about the recent "Love Bug"
> [ email attack, this little piece of humor circulated among the
> [ smug users of the UNIX computer operating system.  -- Robbie
>
> UNIX VIRUS!  Beware!  Beware!
>
> If you're running UNIX, please forward this message to everyone
> you know and then delete a bunch of your files at random.
>
> This virus works on the honor system.

See?  That's the _problem_ with Unix, you have to know
all kinds of system stuff that should just _work_!

Larry Smith


(Message sent Mon 15 May 2000, 00:21:18 GMT, from time zone GMT-0400.)

Key Words in Subject:  New, Unix, Virus

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