The biggest problem I (and apparently David) has is email. "Spice Girls Vocal Concert". "Meeting Notice." "Cellpadding." "A very humour game."
These are all samples of what I've gotten this morning, each one has a Win32.elkn virus attached to it, or something similar. If I opened one of the attachments, my computer would become a launching point for this junk. No "firewall" is going to stop email at my front door, unless I want to stop receiving mail entirely. Some more intelligent filters will help (PC-cillin and other active internet content virus filters), but you still have to download the darn thing to know it contains a virus. I am working on getting a filter on my own mail server, but that's going to be pricey, and will only spare the bandwidth of distributing the mail to my pop3 users, but not that used coming in to the server. And most of these filters send a message back to the original sender, increase traffic even more! I count over 300 of these messages in my inbox from this month alone. I may get hit worse than others because of some of the public websites I run (I get a lot of email from kids, as I operate one of the biggest anime networks in the world). Again, no amount of filtering or firewalls will stop this junk from floating around the internet, hoging bandwidth, wasting resources all along the way. I see this email-distributing virus as something that's going to be extremely difficult to *ever* rid the world of, and a problem that is going to start making a serious impact... Scott ----- Original Message ----- From: "Georg Rehfeld" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, May 10, 2002 12:42 AM Subject: Re: [JAVA3D] Off-topic: Virus proliferation > Hi all, > > "Daniel Selman" wrote: > > > ... ZoneAlarm on my Windows boxes. ZoneAlarm is a fantastic > > piece of software, not because it stops things from getting IN > > (the routers do that), ... > > In my config, ZoneAlarm even seems to succesfully block incoming > traffic (including ping, if I want), [hopefully]. My W2K System > at least successfully survives all tests at ShieldsUp: > > https://grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2 > > > ... but because it stops rogue/unwanted/spy-ware) from getting OUT. > > Yes, this is REALLY good against standard attackers. The only > fear I have here is: what if the kids start to hack viruses > in Java, which I gave access to the internet naturally? > > Shouldn't I have said that? But Java is sort of an OS, it at least > can read and write my files, with internet access some Java prog > started by me can do to the world whatever it wants. And do we > really know, what's done inside some downloaded jar? > > regards > > Georg > ___ ___ > | + | |__ Georg Rehfeld Woltmanstr. 12 20097 Hamburg > |_|_\ |___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] +49 (40) 23 53 27 10 > > =========================================================================== > To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body > of the message "signoff JAVA3D-INTEREST". For general help, send email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "help". =========================================================================== To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff JAVA3D-INTEREST". For general help, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "help".
