Re: Is Euphoria a virus ?
- Posted by Daniel Johnson <dpj22 at CAM.AC.UK> Mar 12, 2000
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>I tried duplicating the problem, but all I got was a slight slowing of >xWindows, and eventually, Euphoria exited with an out-of-memory >message and ex.err file when the sequence grew to 20megs. (Understandable, >I only have 28megs on the computer). Everything else continues to run normally. Certain machines seemed vulnerable to it, while others showed no side effects. It was probably run 50 times on the webserver with no known side effects prior to the fatal incident. All it did was recursively put sequences inside each other. On most machines it just ran out of memory and quit. >If you will send the cgi program in question via private e-mail, I will try >again with that. Well I guess if you destroy a virus you reduce the chances of finding a cure, but I zapped it anyway. Daniel -- Today's Proverb : Trust in the Lord with all your heart, do not rely on your own understanding (3v5) Daniel Johnson Engineer, smartypants and clown Jesus College, Cambridge all at a very reasonable price dpj22 at cam.ac.uk zeus.jesus.cam.ac.uk/~dpj22 talk dpj22 at jewish.jesus.cam.ac.uk