Other than educating your users and that silly "filter the
message by the subject line" fix, has anyone come up
with a feasible way to protect your network and servers
from the load this "virus" could potentially cause?
Rick McMillin
Network Operations Center
I-Land Internet Services
----- Original Message -----
From: John Conover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 1999 1:54 PM
Subject: Re: Melissa Virus
> Kai MacTane writes:
> > Text written by John Conover at 05:48 PM 3/30/99 -0000:
> >
> > >BTW, I put the address of the sender of the attachment in the warning,
> > >since procmail's formail will extract such stuff, and a statement that
> > >if you don't know this person, don't click.
> >
> > But part of the point (and the evil) of Melissa is that you *do* know
the
> > person. It sends itself to folks that it finds at the top of someone's
> > Outlook address book -- presumably, folks they correspond with on some
> > basis or another.
> >
>
> Some of them don't, and it does mean, that no matter what, or how the
> PC is configured, it won't extract the attachment automatically. It
> requires intervention, after reading a message.
>
> John
>
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