RE: [ST] An easier way to search the digests?

["Mike Bostock" <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In your message regarding RE: [ST] An easier way to search the
digests? dated Tue, 17 Dec 2002 13:06:32 -0500, James Goldston said
that ...

>JG-  When I sent the Year 2000 digest to Roger Richards his anti-virus checker
>JG-  detected a virus in two of the files: v2000.n135 & v2000.n143.  It was
>JG-  because of this that I noticed my real-time AV checker wasn't turned on.
>JG-  Not good for a security guy.
>JG-  
>JG-  To make a long story short, could we have a few people who have faith in
>JG-  their real-time AV checkers try to download the v2000.n135 & v2000.n143
>JG-  files to their hard drive and see if their AV checker lights up?  If they
>JG-  do, then we should ask triumphnet to remove the code from those two files.
>JG-  The two files are not all bad, but there is a buried script in the files
>JG-  (look for the word "REGEDI").

It is the Kak worm but entirely harmless in the form of the digest
since the script won't be executed.

Probably best to remove the script though.

Current NAV 2002 didn't react to it though.

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Mike Bostock
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'99 Red ST

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