[PLUG] another virus

[Nick Traxler]

Brent Meshier wrote:
> Someone mentioned there's a safe and easy way to view the
> infected files on Linux?  Was it a hex editor?
> 
> --Brent
> 

Any way under Linux should be safe, as Linux does not recognize Windows
binaries. You could probably save the attachment from pine or crop out
the message directly from your mail file, then use od, strings, or any
other way to extract text from a binary. You might even try opening the
file in StarOffice and see what it thinks.

-- 
Nick Traxler
Computer Science, Purdue University
http://www.cs.purdue.edu/people/traxlend

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