In Sean's defence, he's probably just a patsy. This virus is one of those
that propagates from an infected computer without the user's knowledge. I
got this message some time back, but fortunately my Norton Antivirus was up
to date. Even they get caught unprepared sometimes however.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Jennis [SMTP:jhjennis@shentel.net]
> Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2000 6:59 PM
> To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
> Subject: [SQL] VB (Virus Builder) Virus Posted
>
> Hello Fellow Postgres users,
>
> If any of you got the message posted by this idiot "Sean"
> <sean@fastinternet.net.au> to the list, the attached VB (otherwise known
> as
> Virus Builder) script is infected with the VBS.Freelink virus.
>
> Watch out for it and if you are reading your mail running a Windows
> platform and happen to get this virus, you must delete the files
>
> c:\windows\links.vbs
> c:\windows\system\rundll.vbs
>
> If you are running Linux (of course) you may ignore it and politely tell
> Sean to put this VB script where the Sun doesn't shine.
>
> Regards,
>
> Jim
>
>
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