From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Oct 25 13:31:14 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix, from userid 758) id B78C314D2B; Mon, 25 Oct 1999 13:31:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A53F71CD437; Mon, 25 Oct 1999 13:31:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@hub.freebsd.org) Date: Mon, 25 Oct 1999 13:31:12 -0700 (PDT) From: Kris Kennaway To: jack Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Hotmail security vulnerability (viruses) (fwd) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 25 Oct 1999, jack wrote: > 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. My question still stands, and that _was_ still quoted as the reason.. Kris To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message