Re: [MacPerl] MacPerl and [A]CGI startup time

[Clay Kasow <ckasow@reed.edu>]

Yikes!  This is my worst nightmare come to life!!!

>MacPerl_WebServer1.0b2.7.pl
>### File infected by MBDF B.
>
>Clay, please confirm this and fix.  Everyone who downloaded it, please run
>a virus program.  I am checking the rest of my drive as we speak, but I
>don't think it is on anywhere else, as I did this just a few weeks ago and
>found no viruses.  I took a fresh copy of the .sit and unstuffed it and
>disinfected it, and found the virus again.

The strange thing is that I have never seen behavior on my Mac like what
Chris Nandor observed - either with the MacPerl_WebServer droplet or
anything else I have ever run on my computer...  In fact, my Mac has been
particularly stable and nice to me as of late...

I am about to run down to The Computer Store and dish out big bucks for
some virus protection software - something I probably should have done a
while ago but I am a real miser...  :)

I really apologize for this and seriously hope this virus has not caused
any damges to anyone's stuff...  I dread what this virus program will
report about the status of everything on my hard drive.  I'll probably have
to reformat it, with my luck...  And I haven't backed up for weeks.  Will
keep you all updated on what I find and let you all know when I have
cleaned things up...

This virus has nothing to do with a meglomaniacal plot of mine to crash the
Internet and take over the world.  Really.  You have my word.

Clay Kasow
ckasow@reed.edu



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