-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- An entity claiming to be Marianne Mueller wrote: : : We've reached urban legend time for Java...? : : There is no Java virus known as "Black Widow". There was a melodramatic : web article about Java security that used the title "Black Widow", a pun : on the web. The article focused mostly on the danger of denial-of-service "Black Widow" was the calling card of a little script called 'latro' that exploited the stupidity of certain webmasters who put perl.exe in the cgi-bin directory on PC-based webservers. The default code to execute on the remote machine was: print "If I were nasty, you'd be spiderfood by now.\n"; print "\n\n\t--the black widow\n"; - -- Mark Rogaski | Why read when you can just sit and | Member GTI System Admin | stare at things? | Programmers Local wendigo@gti.net | Any expressed opinions are my own | # 0xfffe wendigo@pobox.com | unless they can get me in trouble. | APL-CPIO -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBMaU7oA0HmAyu61cJAQGxHQP+OkDD+v4FhAQynhI4V2GpwilaOEoxlow0 Y5s1g8YkIYuApvxAU8eyFfqmlp8fG1rnc4mITXmvYGj66Wy5L/n2npfXTo45KAHc VRr7qT7HeEFwgunMCnJcZ+7CtlAKpXn6siuenUEl4gqRjApmFI/pLSXna4sbG4v8 1tNAcyOITmk= =McGt -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----