Re: a fish on the screen
From: Dimitri Maziuk (dima@127.0.0.1)Date: 05/21/02
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From: Dimitri Maziuk <dima@127.0.0.1> Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 15:27:33 +0000 (UTC)
thus spake Per Fransson:
> Hello,
>
> I'm using Mandrake 8.1 and am on a LAN full of people I don't trust one
> bit. I was minding my own business when all of a sudden a blue fish came
> swimming across the screen. Kind of funny actually. Have I been hacked
> (seems likely - I don't really take any precautions); if so is it by any
> special method? Can I purge my system of this thing? Does anyone
> recognise this particular symptom?
It's an Easter egg in GNOME. Ditch that bloated piece of
crap and install KDE: if the authors are stupid enough to
put Easter eggs in their code, there's probably lots of
other idiocies lurking in there.
Dima
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