Re: WARNING - Virus infected messages on list
At work using the computer their employers provided?
At 10:39 PM 11/13/2000 -0800, Vijay Prabakaran wrote:
>Yes. Good point. What are people using M$ apps on
>Windoze doing on this list anyway.
>
>Vijay.
>--- Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net> wrote:
>> On Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 11:59:35PM -0500, Mike
>> wrote:
>> > In case no one has noticed yet, there are a bunch
>> of virus infected messages
>> > coming through here on the debian-users list. For
>> information on this
>> > virus, go to:
>> >
>> >
>>
>http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.navidad.html
>> >
>> > Those of us using Linux for email have nothing to
>> worry about (of course).
>> > However it seems that there are quite a few that
>> do use Outlook Express,
>> > which - as near as I can tell - is what this virus
>> targets.
>> >
>> > Just wanted to put out a heads-up for everyone.
>> >
>> > (Okay, okay. Technically this thing is actually a
>> worm. But it can still
>> > do damage.)
>>
>> very true all they do is annoy GNU/Linux users as
>> well as everyone
>> else who uses a real MUA that is not vulnerable to
>> this crap.
>>
>> I hearby propose that the list automatically reject
>> all postings that
>> appear to have been sent using MS Outlook. this
>> way this garbage
>> won't happen each and every time ya new Outlook worm
>> comes out.
>>
>> to subscribers forced to use win* for mail please
>> switch to a real MUA
>> that has been designed with just a pinch of clue,
>> say Eudora.
>>
>> /me is VERY tempted to write a procmail rule to scan
>> for X-Mailer:
>> MS Outhouse and file it all into /dev/null.
>>
>> --
>> Ethan Benson
>> http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
>>
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