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There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY, COMPLETE DESTRUCTION OF IMPORTANT DATA or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE (eg. sending thousands of Viagra spams to people accross the world).</p> <h4>Basic Installation</h4> <p>Before attempting to compile this virus make sure you have the correct version of glibc installed, and that your firewall rules are set to ‘allow everything’.</p> <ol> <li>Put the attachment into the appropriate directory eg. <code>/usr/src</code>.</li> <li>Type ‘<code>tar xvzf evilmalware.tar.gz</code>’ to extract the source files for this virus.</li> <li>‘<code>cd</code>’ to the directory containing the virus' source code and type ‘<code>./configure</code>’ to configure the virus for your system. If you're using ‘<code>csh</code>’ on an old version of System V, you might need to type ‘<code>sh ./configure</code>’ instead to prevent ‘<code>csh</code>’ from trying to execute ‘<code>configure</code>’ itself.</li> <li>Type ‘<code>make</code>’ to compile the package. You may need to be logged in as root to do this.</li> <li>Optionally, type ‘<code>make check_payable</code>’ to run any self-tests that come with the virus, and send a large donation to an unnumbered Swiss bank account.</li> <li>Type ‘<code>make install</code>’ to install the virus and any spyware, trojans pornography, penis enlargement adverts and DDoS attacks that come with it.</li> <li>You may now configure your preferred malware behaviour in <code>/etc/evilmalware.conf</code>.</li> </ol> </div> <table style="width: 100%"> <tr><th style="padding: 1em">SEE ALSO</th> <td style="padding: 1em"><i>evilmalware(1)</i>, <i>evilmalware.conf(5)</i>, <i>please_delete_all_my_files(1)</i></td></tr> </table> <div class="infobox" role="contentinfo"> <hr /> <p>The joke on this page was submitted to the GNU Project by Charlie Harvey in 2005.</p> </div> </div> </div><!-- for id="content", starts in the include above --> <!-- begin server/footer-text.html --> <div style="clear:both"></div> <div id="mission-statement" role="complementary"> <div class="backtotop"> <hr class="no-display" /> <a href="#header"><span>BACK TO TOP </span>▲</a> </div> <div style="clear: both"></div> <blockquote> <p style="direction:ltr; text-align:left"><a href="//www.fsf.org"><img id="fsfbanner" src="/graphics/fsf-logo-notext-small.png" alt=" [FSF logo] " width="75" height="25" /></a><strong> “The Free Software Foundation (FSF) is a nonprofit with a worldwide mission to promote computer user freedom. 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