while there is some worry about worms and other exploits i would look at the source of the message:
> Eddie Hooi >_______________________ >SME/SMB Territory Manager >Mcafee & PGP Business Unit and ask yourself is this genuine, there are other virus scanners for linux, so you would have to ask yourself why would a mcafeed manager be telling people to get mcafee on their unix systems? duan wrote: > Sorry guys..just like to have a confirmation from all Linux Gurus in > here...Is the below email holds any truth.? > > Please tell me it aint true. > > Sorry again. > > regards > > duan > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, March 18, 2002 22:32 > Subject: Warning - Increased in Unix based viruses creating exploits > Importance: High > > Hello Valueble customer and partners, > > Please Distribute or forward to your corporate customers or friends > as it contains important infomation that not only Microsoft Windows > contain > viruses but UNIX Platform as well. Today, if your customer Unix > system is not protected, get Mcafee to > protect for them. Mcafee VirusScan under the suite of Active Virus > Defence > (AVD), Active Virus Scan (AVS), Total Virus Defence (TVD) and VirusScan > Security Suite protects your unix servers (Linux, FreeBSD, HP Unix, > IBM AIX, > and Sun Solaris). No other vendor supports all these variety of unix as > Mcafee. > > Thank you for your support. > > > Regards, > > Eddie Hooi > _______________________ > SME/SMB Territory Manager > Mcafee & PGP Business Unit > Network Associates Inc. (Mobile : +6 012 233 0655) > (email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ) > Website : www.nai.com <http://www.nai.com> ; www.mcafeeb2b.com > <http://www.mcafeeb2b.com>; www.pgp.com <http://www.pgp.com> ; > www.sniffer.com <http://www.sniffer.com>; > www.magic.com <http://www.magic.com> > Email support : [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Internet support : www.nai/naicommon/support > <http://www.nai/naicommon/support> > Toll Free Line Support : 1-800-80-1576 > >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: Lai, Kevin Sent: Monday, March 18, 2002 12:52 PM >>> To: Hooi, Eddie; [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> Cc: Tian, Anthony >>> Subject: Warning Please Distribute - Increased in Unix based viruses >>> creating exploits Importance: High >>> >>> Known viruses creating exploits on Unix-based systems are as follows >>> for >>> the different Unix variants: >>> Sun OS: >>> SunOS/BoxPoison.worm SunOS/Exploit-Deliri >>> Linux OS: >>> Linux.Jac.8759 Linux.Ramen Linux/Adore.worm Linux/Amdcrash >>> Linux/Exploit-Lsub Linux/Exploit-Statdx Linux/Exploit-Su >>> Linux/Exploit-Woot Linux/Fork Linux/Lindose Linux/Lion.worm >>> Linux/Osf Linux/Ramen.worm Linux/Red Linux/Rootkit >>> Linux/Rpcmountd Linux/Seclpd Linux/Snoopy.b Worm.Linux.Ramen >>> FreeBSD: >>> BSD/Exploit-Autofsd >>> Generic Unix: >>> Unix/Zerto Unix/Timay >>> Please refer for more information on Mcafee Solutions for these >>> Unix-based >>> viruses in http://vil.nai.com/VIL/default.asp >>> >>> Kevin Lai >>> Sales Engineer, >>> Network Associates Inc. >>> "Who's watching your network?" >>> Mobile : 013-3961950 >>> Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <<Main Website : >>> www.nai.com <http://www.nai.com> >> >>> <<BU Website : www.mcafeeb2b.com <http://www.mcafeeb2b.com> >> >>> <<BU Website : www.pgp.com <http://www.pgp.com> >> >>> <<BU Website : www.sniffer.com <http://www.sniffer.com> >> >>> <<BU Website : www.magicsolutions.com >>> <http://www.magicsolutions.com> >> >>> >>> >> > > > _____________________________________________________________________ > Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss > For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.openprojects.net _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.openprojects.net
