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Re: What's the "NVI recovery program"? Could this be a trojan?



On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 01:05:25PM -0300, hzi wrote:
> Hi-
> 
> 	I found the message below in my Balsa Inbox.
> 	Is there such a thing? Why did it appear in my mailbox?
> 	Should I be worried about trojans and the like?
> 	Thanks,
> 	Henry
> 
> 
> ----- Forwarded message from Nvi recovery program <root> -----
> 
> On Mon Apr  9 14:15:41 2001, the user root was editing a
> file named /usr/share/texmf/web2c/fmtutil.cnf on the machine
> siddhi.samsara, when it was saved for recovery. You can
> recover most, if not all, of the changes to this file using
> the -r option to vi:
> 
> 	vi -r /usr/share/texmf/web2c/fmtutil.cnf
> ----- End forwarded message -----

    Did the machine in question have an nvi session that was killed without
saving the buffer?

    Mike

-- 
Michael P. Soulier <msoulier@storm.ca> 
"With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. However, this is not necessarily a
good idea. It is hard to be sure where they are going to land, and it could be
dangerous sitting under them as they fly overhead." -- RFC 1925

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