From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/2262 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Oliver Scholz Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: virus in Gnus Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2003 19:31:18 +0200 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138668759 14515 80.91.229.2 (31 Jan 2006 00:52:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 00:52:39 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: nobody Tue Jan 17 17:30:25 2006 Original-Path: quimby.gnus.org!newsfeed.gazeta.pl!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!dialin-145-254-194-169.arcor-ip.NET!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: dialin-145-254-194-169.arcor-ip.net (145.254.194.169) Original-X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1049218369 4011959 145.254.194.169 (16 [87814]) X-Attribution: os X-Face: "HgH2sgK|bfH$;PiOJI6|qUCf.ve<51_Od(%ynHr?=>znn#~#oS>",F%B8&\vus),2AsPYb -n>PgddtGEn}s7kH?7kH{P_~vu?]OvVN^qD(L)>G^gDCl(U9n{:d>'DkilN!_K"eNzjrtI4Ya6;Td% IZGMbJ{lawG+'J>QXPZD&TwWU@^~A}f^zAb[Ru;CT(UA]c& User-Agent: Gnus/5.090016 (Oort Gnus v0.16) Emacs/21.3.50 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:AFe0vSfrB/REanHDnlM1pA2g2Yg= Original-Xref: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de gnus-emacs-gnus:2402 Original-Lines: 29 X-Gnus-Article-Number: 2402 Tue Jan 17 17:30:25 2006 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:2262 Archived-At: Simon Josefsson writes: > Oliver Scholz writes: > >> A virus has affected my Emacs. It seems that this happend through >> Gnus via some Lisp code that was attached to a message. >> >> Any advice on what I could do? To scan the hard-disc with McAffee was >> futile. Please help1! > > Try Oort in CVS; a few hours ago I committed a dynamically adaptive > virus scanner, based on a virtualized Intel x86 CPU implementation in > elisp, that simulate all incoming code to tell whether it is a virus > or not. > > (Code for other CPUs are handled by invoking a simulator inside the > virtualized x86, but for now you need to install an external program > to get that functionality.) Thanks! However, I still think that it would be good to let `gnus-article-auto-eval-lisp-snippets' default to nil. It was a bad idea to set it to t in the first place, IMO. I know that things like that are considered as "industry leading business solutions" by some other vendors of MUAs/NUAs, but you see what comes from that ... Oliver -- 12 Germinal an 211 de la Révolution Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité!