Author: Eugene Nalimov
Date: 21:22:19 05/04/00
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On May 05, 2000 at 00:06:56, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On May 04, 2000 at 19:53:02, James Robertson wrote: > >>On May 04, 2000 at 14:01:03, Frederic Friedel wrote: >> >>>On May 04, 2000 at 12:54:39, Dave Gomboc wrote: >>> >>>>On May 04, 2000 at 12:22:45, Frederic Friedel wrote: >>>> >>>>>Watch out for further information on CNN and Sky. Probably there will be a >>>>>statement by Janet Reno. I believe the virus has reached the East Coast, and >>>>>some are saying that the whole of the UK is down. I think maybe this is the Big >>>>>One. >>>> >>>>Doesn't that seem to be over-doing it a little? :) The anti-virus tools will be >>>>updated shortly, and we'll go back to life as normal. >>>> >>> >>>Actually it's much worse than I initially thought. CNN, Sky, BBC, German TV, all >>>of whom are carrying the story as headline news, keep advocating the same >>>remedies: immediately delete any message entitled "I love you". Second remedy: >>>get a virus protection update. >>> >>>This is rubbish. The virus comes to you as a Visual Basic source file. In five >>>minutes you can change the title to "Important message" or "Virus warning". And >>>I really don't know how Symantec and Mcafee can keep up with thousands of clones >>>per day. >>> >>>Somebody on this thread suggeste a different remedy and protection: switch to >>>Linux. This virus may turn out to be a bigger problem for Microsoft than all the >>>current anti-trust lawsuits. >> >>And after everybody uses Linux, viruses will be gone? No, rather they will just >>attack Linux. >> >>James > > >There won't be any email viruses attacking linux (unix) machines. Sun allowed >this once by distributing a version of sendmail with debug enabled. Everyone >knows better now. Allowing executables in email is an insane idea. Want a bet? The executable did not start automatically -- user had to manually run it. I beleive that there are 2 factors why there are no such viruses on *nux: (1) It's much less widespread than Windows (I am not talking about server environment/universities). (2) Average user knows that's it not a good isea to start unknown executable. When DOJ dream would come true and average Jane/Joe would have Linux on her/his machine, those 2 factors would go away. And please notice that Jane/Joe would run as the administrator (superuser), as it's slightly more convenient... Eugene
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