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Re: ADSL keep alive script or virus



On Wed, Dec 05, 2001, Ghiora Drori wrote about "ADSL keep alive script or virus":
> Hi,
> I just got an email  from captain@bezeqint.net with the
> subject : ADSL keep alive script
> and with a file that is not readable on Linux. However strings shows it is
> a windows executable. (stuff like: "this program will not run on DOS ")
> Anybody know if this is a virus ?
> The sender is supposed to be "David Tabachniikov <_captain@bezeqint.net>"

It's the Badtrans-B worm. We just had a whole discussion about this on this
list, until Omer Zak called us to order (it's not very relevant to Linux,
you know). Is there any special reason we should reopen this discussion?

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