I think that this sort of virus can still effect the linux community, in two
ways..
If this was to stike a company then the mail systems they are running will
have a huge amount of data hit them in a very small time. I seen one of
these things hit a novell server which hardley noticed, yet a NT server in
another company went in its special BLUE screen mode.
Linux people can say, 1 our freeware server can handle this stress with out
too much hassle, 2.. Our GUI dont have any issues such as those found on the
microsoft solutions.
You can use this situation to push linux into the business world, so that a
NT server or 2 (or a few thousand) to not crash in vain.. Their crashing is
only a opportunity to show the world LINUX and what it can do for you..
(wally from fairstar computers style)
Carlo
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From: "Aussie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2000 11:32 PM
Subject: Re: [SLUG] OT but warning for Sysadmins
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> On 4 May 00, at 23:03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> > Hi all,
> >
> > we have been hit by a new virii, the email subject title is ILOVEYOU, it
> > has caused some problems in Dell Australia, we had to filter the email
> > to trash that has this title. what we have found about this attack is it
> > replicates using outlook addressbook (How usless is I.S department
> ^^^^^^^
> > allowing to use a program that has had so many virial attacks that
> > replicates by grabbing addresses in the address book) also it opens IE
> > and attaches to a web site and downloads a file. todate we do not know
> > what the file does. I have been informed that Norton is developing an
> > antivirus update and it should be ready by approx 2am.
>
> Anyone here overly concerned about yet another IE/Outlook virus? I know
> I'm not. I actually think it's quite funny.....is this a message from
> Bill himself? A virus that only affects IE/Outlook called ILoveYou??
>
> Aussie
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