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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.ysu.edu!news.radio.cz!newsbastard.radio.cz!news.radio.cz!CESspool!nntp.uio.no!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news-peer.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!sprint!uunet!in1.uu.net!139.85.52.101!hnssysb.hns.com!usenet From: "Kapil Chowksey (Jaeger)" <kchowksey@hss.hns.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: virus infected fips.exe at freebsd.org ? Date: Sat, 12 Apr 1997 00:03:40 +0000 Organization: Hughes Software Systems Lines: 15 Message-ID: <334ED15C.1FE179B1@hss.hns.com> References: <334EC35C.2F0ECF49@hss.hns.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: valhalla.hss.hns.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (X11; I; Linux 1.1.59 i486) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:38957 Kapil Chowksey (Jaeger) wrote: > > I just downloaded fips.exe from > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/tools/fips.exe > > Turns out that its infected by 'ONE HALF.3544' virus. I'm using McAfee > Associates' Scan 2.2.9 virus scanner. Oops - false alarm. The file's clean. with egg on my face. -- Kapil Chowksey kchowksey@hss.hns.com