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Date:      Mon, 25 Oct 1999 16:25:11 -0400 (EDT)
From:      jack <jack@germanium.xtalwind.net>
To:        Kris Kennaway <kris@hub.freebsd.org>
Cc:        chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Hotmail security vulnerability (viruses) (fwd)
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.20.9910251622490.91975-100000@germanium.xtalwind.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910251308130.53784-100000@hub.freebsd.org>

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Today Kris Kennaway wrote:

> Hotmail's engineers could not fix the problem because Hotmail runs on
> FreeBSD Unix, according to Star Internet. And Network Associates, which
> owns anti-virus software maker McAfee -- has produced a fourth version of
> McAfee anti-virus scanner that can detect Melissa-style macro viruses, but
> that version does not run on the FreeBSD Unix operating system used by
> Hotmail.

IIRC, it is only the front end that runs on FreeBSD.  The back
(mail) end is sun HW and SW.

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