I think a much bigger problem are the email servers that try to 'help' by sending you an email when you've supposedly sent an email with a virus. That this happened in the first day or perhaps two of the attack, ok. But now? Every admin should know by now that the virus source address gets spoofed so there's no reason to generate yet more email by warning the sender.
As for suggesting that everyone should use Linux, well, that's just plain rude and not helpful. People computer illiterate enough to allow themselves to get infected with sobig wouldn't know how to install or use Linux. A decent virus scanner (that was a good suggestion although McAffee is rather poor) is a simple way to prevent infection on a windows system. Linux is wonderful but not for everyone. I won't go into the virtues of Windows over Linux or vise versa. Let me summarize by saying that right now Win2K can do things for -me- that Linux can't and probably never will. Once there's a good reason to add a Linux system to my setup I'll gladly do that. Sander > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of David Masten > Sent: Saturday, August 30, 2003 7:27 PM > To: ERPS Main List > Subject: [ERPS] Windows users pls fix your machines > > > I'm sick of dealing with the outputs from your virus infected OS. > > Workarounds are available from http://www.microsoft.com and > http://www.mcafee.com > > Fixes are available from http://www.redhat.com, http://www.suse.com, > http://www.mandrake.com, http://www.freebsd.org, http://www.openbsd.org, > and many others. > _______________________________________________ ERPS-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.erps.org/mailman/listinfo/erps-list
