Re: Virus Warnings

[James <james.carpenter@ukaea.org.uk>]

I seem to remember a case from my computer system admin lectures, 
although it is imposible to get a virus from reading an e-mail,
you can send an e-mail that will screw up the server.  Internet 
worm I think.  If I remember it exploited the fact that the mail 
deamon on the host server under unix had a bug, and that it ran 
as a fixed user id process.  It was a way of getting into a system. 
Don't ask me how, I was half asleep at the time (just been down the
SU bar).

-- 
James Carpenter
Yellow '79 spit wired by a trained marmot