Well, I don't know if you are talking about M$oft being the obvious target, but the real target in this case are the morons that don't run any antivirus on their machines. I supervise a tech support department and it is unbelievable how many people don't have virus protection, or realize they should have any at all. I liked an editorial article that I read last week (the source escapes me) that mentioned that people should have a permit to own a computer. After all, you wouldn't just turn them lose with a car and not know the proper way to handle that, would you? I mean imagine the damage they could do...
I agree that there hasn't been much publicity as to "how to stop" the virus. I mean seriously, as much trouble as this is causing wouldn't you think there would be specific information on what to do? At least I haven't seen anything about it. Anyway, I finally set up a few more filters to get them out of my inbox and my "running virus-related emails" are now up to 11,500 since Thursday morning... :( Todd -----Original Message----- From: Matthew Macdonald-Wallace [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, August 23, 2003 5:02 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [wdvltalk] RE: SoBig > On Friday 22 August 2003 5:12 pm, Todd Richards wrote: > > I feel your pain. I've had over 8100 so-big related messages since > > yesterday morning. I now have filters set up but still feel like I > > am spending way too much time making sure I don't delete "real" emails... > > I feel sorry for all you guys getting plagued with these emails, but > also a > little puzzled that I'm not getting any. I'm the same, but I've not got (AFAIK) any filters running at all. Has anyone else noticed that all the news bulletins and newspaper reports, the ones here in the UK anyways, have all said how awfult this is, but no-one has said that if you go to such and such a website there's information on how to stop it? I've stoppped it dead in its tracks on my machine, Gentoo 1.4 (http://www.gentoo.org/) and evolution to send emails. You see, its not the virus writers that are th prblem, its presenting them with an obvious target... /me puts on flame proof vest and runs for cover.... ;) my �0.02 Matt -- +---------------------------------+ |Matthew Macdonald-Wallace | |The Truth Will Set you Free | |http://www.truthisfreedom.org.uk/| +---------------------------------+ BOFH Excuse #21: POSIX compliance problem ____ � The WDVL Discussion List from WDVL.COM � ____ To Join wdvltalk, Send An Email To: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Send Your Posts To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To set a personal password send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the words: "set WDVLTALK pw=yourpassword" in the body of the email. To change subscription settings to the wdvltalk digest version: http://wdvl.internet.com/WDVL/Forum/#sub ________________ http://www.wdvl.com _______________________ You are currently subscribed to wdvltalk as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to %%email.unsub%% ____ � The WDVL Discussion List from WDVL.COM � ____ To Join wdvltalk, Send An Email To: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Send Your Posts To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To set a personal password send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the words: "set WDVLTALK pw=yourpassword" in the body of the email. To change subscription settings to the wdvltalk digest version: http://wdvl.internet.com/WDVL/Forum/#sub ________________ http://www.wdvl.com _______________________ You are currently subscribed to wdvltalk as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
