# Honour virus
#
# Dear Linux/*BSD user,
# As you have avoided the various
# virii inflicted upon your poor
# Windows-using cousins, please take
# a moment to read this letter and
# then follow the instructions below.
#
# In the spirit of cooperation of
# the free software community, this
# virus was written to depend on your
# cooperation and good will - hence
# the name "honour" virus. With your
# cooperation, this virus can spread
# as rapidly as the lovebug virus,
# once again showing how the free
# software community can respond to
# issues quicker than the largest
# propriatary software maker.
#
# The virus starts here:

# 1. Please delete, at random, 10 (ten)
# .jpg, .mpg, .mp3, or .mov files from
# your hard drive. Please do not choose
# files for which you have a
# backup, as that would be unfair to all
# the Windows users who *never*
# backup their data.

# 2. Please send this email to everybody
# you have ever received an email
# from. We realise that you might have
# to write a short shell script to
# do this easily, but we feel that,
# as a Linux or *BSD user, you are
# most likely to be able to do this
# without relying on built-in insecure
# scripting mechanisms.

# 3. If you are reading this in
# your workplace, please shut down your
# workplace's email system and internet
# access for 3 working days -
# again this is just so we can empathise
# fully with Windows-using companies.

# 4. When asked if the writers of
# Linux or *BSD are to blame, claim that
# the virus only spread because of
# intervention by the user's brain and
# that the tight integration between
# your wetware and the OS is a good
# thing that is misused by malicious
# virus writers.

# 5. If you are Linus Torvalds, Alan Cox,
# or you have ever written any
# free software, write an essay for
# Time magazine complaining that it
# will be much harder to protect Linux
# users from virii such as this
# unless Linux is sold to company and
# development continues only in a
# closed-source environment. In particular,
# all user knowledge of the OS
# must be erased if such virii are
# to be prevented in the future.

# 6. As this virus is copylefted under
# the GPL, feel free to modify,
# err, mutate, and distribute widely.
#
# Thank you. And remember, open source
# virii are far superior to proprietary virii!
#
# Tuxunamis Infectious