lesson learned...i got a bad memory
but if it serves me at all doesnt
m$ make outlook???
piranha....
>From: Dave Laird <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: RE: Here you have, ;o)
>Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 01:12:21 -0800 (PST)
>
>Good morning, Iain...
>
>On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, Iain Fenwick wrote:
>
> > how many of you opened this ?????
>
><selfish grin> After the first of many trojans, worms and other viruses
>made the rounds, I changed my policy regarding e-mail. Now I no longer
>read e-mail (at least until it is validated as coming from "trusted"
>sources) in Linux Pine with some fundamental changes. I use Microsoft's
>vulnerable e-mail products sparingly, if at all. As a result, when the
>message of which you are speaking arrived, I opened it in Linux and
>checked to see what it was, hoping that it was merely a clone, rather
>than a new permutation of the Anna Karnikova virus that was about to
>sweep around the world with more destructive tendencies than its parent.
>Thank goodness, it wasn't, according to the checksum I've got.
>
>Then I deleted the message and went on about my business. I simply don't
>let Outlook or Outlook Express near the internet, and I have learned a
>lot from lurking here about how to harden my mail server.
>
> > dot you read the papers?
>
>It's pretty depressing when I do, but occasionally. 8-)
>
> > no virus scanning on the list server, might be worth loooking at!!!!
>
>Actually, even having a little Perl script that somehow would scan for
>familiar names (such as the Karnikova virus) or subject lines might
>help, and it wouldn't require a lot of system resources. On the other
>hand, the users should be held responsible for their system security,
>shouldn't they? My job, as a system admin, is to beat them bodily about
>the head for not using anti-virus software, not to bog down the server
>with yet another layer of "protection", no?
>
>However, I *DO* wonder how many on the list opened this puppy up.
>Actually, I wonder how many, after the fact, would *ADMIT* it. <wry grin>
>
>Dave
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>
>
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