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MyDoom has been nasty to me (as I'm sure many others), mostly in 'undeliverable mail' messages from servers that have detected the virus in a spoofed address. Otherwise, even though everything 'out there' may be shutting down, I feel relatively snug in my *NIX only environment ;-). Perhaps it's time to change the protocols governing email and start properly training people to operate on the Internet. Maybe an elective course, supported by ISP's who offer reduced fees every month to individuals that have completed the course and become certified 'net ready'. This would be similar to the reductions offered by insurance companies for people who have completed drivers ed. Not to mention the benefits the ISP's themselves would experience by not getting slammed so hard everytime something like this happens.
Despite what some libertarians might say (and I would like to be able to agree with them) the Net is by no means a right that should blindly be had by all, it can be a very dangerous tool and should require a minimal amount of knowledge to have access, knowledge that obviously many people don't have.
Sorry about the rant, just kind of sick of seeing things happen that can be easily avoided if people just knew better.
J
Stanley A. Schultz wrote: | One and All: | | First, please forgive the cross postings to various lists and any | duplicate mailings. | | Next, I have recently received a number of responses from various mailer | daemons stating that one or another E-mail posting that I may have sent | was infected with a virus. The virus identified in one was "W32/MyDoom-A." | | Be advised that I do all my E-mail on the University of Calgary's mail | server, not my desktop. Their server runs a variant of UNIX, neither a | Windows nor a Mac mutation. Thus, it is highly unlikely that I would be | responsible for sending virus infected E-mails simply because of the | differences inherent in the operating systems and the remote execution. | | Next, because I do not use the Windows based mailers on my desktop, and | indeed have uninstalled them, they could not be sending infected E-mails | under cover. | | It is also highly unlikely that my messages would be infected with this or | any other virus because most of the addresses that they are sent to are | not listed in my address book on the UNIX system and I keep no such E-mail | address listing on my desktop. | | Still, in an effort to be absolutely sure, I have uninstalled the version | of McAfee Antivirus that I had been using and installed the latest | version, updated all the appropriate virus definition files, then run a | complete virus check on my desktop over the weekend. The result was that | my desktop is absolutely, squeaky clean. No viruses. No worms. No Trojan | horses. | | WE ARE ALL AWARE THAT THE CURRENT GENERATION OF VIRUSES MASK THEIR TRUE | ORIGIN BY SUPPLYING DUMMY SOURCE ADDRESSES, and this appears to be the | case here. Somewhere, someone has my E-mail address on their desktop and a | virus is using it with reckless abandon. | | Should you receive an E-mail posting directly from me (not through a | mailing list), you are urged to send a confirmation query to me before | opening that message, ESPECIALLY IF IT CONTAINS ANY ATTACHMENTS. I almost | never send attachments, certainly not to complete strangers. | | Like the man said "Most of my faults aren't my fault." | | WHEN'S THE LAST TIME YOU UPDATED YOUR ANTIVIRUS SOFTWARE? YOU *DO* RUN | SOME SORT OF ANTIVIRUS SOFTWARE, DON'T YOU? | | Are you the problem or the solution? | | | | Peace, health, wisdom and wealth. | Live long and prosper. | | | Stan Schultz | Marguerite Schultz | 4411 Edmonton Trail. NE | Calgary, Alberta T2E 3V7 | CANADA | | Phone (days): (403) 220-8570 (Leave message.) | Phone (eves): (403) 230-1911 (Leave message.) | Phone (cell): (403) 667-6697 (Forget it! It's never on!) | FAX (24 hrs): (403) 270-8928 | E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Web: http://www.ucalgary.ca/~schultz/ | | "We are *NOT* tourists! We've been here for just hours and hours!" | | ***************************************************************** | | GREAT NEWS! You should visit http://www.ucalgary.ca/~schultz/motorhome.html. | | ***************************************************************** | | | | _______________________________________________ | clug-talk mailing list | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca | |
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