Fighting back against Swen/Gibe.F

[Kareem Shehata]

On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 11:07, JoeHill wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Oct 2003 10:59:35 -0500
> Fraser Campbell <fraser-Txk5XLRqZ6CsTnJN9+BGXg at public.gmane.org> uttered:
> 
> > I suspect that some Debian mailing list subscribers got this worm and
> > that's how I'm receiving so many copies.  I noticed that the Debian
> > bug tracking system (works by email) is filled with this worm as well.
> 
> Excuse my ignorance, please, but how in the blazes would someone running
> Debian be spreading an MS worm? 

One of two obvious possibilities:

1) Debian people don't necessarily run *only* debian.  I run debian,
Mandrake, and XP.

2) Wine emulates the good, bad, and ugly of windows - including virii. 

Now, why in the world you would run Outlook, when Evolution and other
far superior apps are available natively is beyond me.

Kareem

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