[gopher] Malware hits in 2006 quux.org gopher archive

[Cameron Kaiser]

> MSE (which is probably the best thing to ever come out of Redmond)
> actually parsed the entire 1G+ bzipped archive and came up with the
> following malware hits:
> 
> Trojan:Java/Jvantiur
> mirrors/etext.org/pub/Zines/RAAR/java_irc_201.jar->UserInfoDialog.class
> 
> Worm:IRC/Generic
> mirrors/risks/20/risks-20.88
> 
> Trojan:BAT/Format.C
> mirrors/textfiles.com/uploads/batviri2.txt
> 
> Virus:BAS/Bv3
> mirrors/textfiles.com/virus/virusbas.vir

Interesting. The first one looks inadvertent, but the selectors for the
other ones suggest they might well be intentional.

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