I've just had another complaint which indicates you may have killed all our OE-using members... OK, we can probably agree on how crap that email client is, but killing them before we convert them isn't helpful at all. :-(
I have to say I reserved myself to bite on this little morsel til today.
I'm glad I didn't subscribe to this list using my work mail. All e-mail including compressed (tgz, zip, etc) attachments are scanned for viruses here, both at the mailserver, and on workstations.
This particular attachment is basically malicious code as the two virus-scanners I am aware of uncompress zip files to scan them. It would have crashed our mail server, and, had it actually come through, it would have crashed my desktop machine.
Had that happened, I would NOT be a happy bunny. (Understatement of the year)
(Did any OE users get that message OK... and why are you using OE?!?)
Just to annoy you! ;-P Actually I don't use OE anymore, but that's not the point.
Seriously, though, some of us work in multi-OS environments, including Mac and M$, and so have to use virus scanners. I suspect that it could've nailed a linux box too, seeing as Linux is perfect for a multi-OS environment, as a mail/file server, etc.
I've noticed a few people using work e-mails, so let's see how good *their* scanners are...
If you want to send this kind of code do it directly to the person who asked for it, please. Anyone fancy posting the NIMDA sourcecode??? >;-) ha ha.
Ricardito