Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 23:26:09 -0700 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: ben@rosengart.com Cc: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>, "'freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG'" <freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Virus Announcements Message-ID: <37031181.D0D91D6E@softweyr.com> References: <Pine.GSO.4.10.9903311601200.28858-100000@echonyc.com>
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Snob Art Genre wrote:
>
> On Mon, 29 Mar 1999, Brett Glass wrote:
>
> > In the real world, none of us can avoid having to deal with Windows.
> > In many cases, it's the reason why our UNIX skills are so valuable.
>
> Speak for yourself. I don't deal with Windows, and I think all this
> Windows virus talk, while not intrinsically valueless, is out of place
> on FreeBSD lists.
Except as an amusing anecdote on why we don't use Wankers 95.
Monday morning I woke up to a report by one of the talking heads on
"The Today Show" about how this email virus was affecting "all computer
users." I told my wife before learning anything more about it that
it didn't affect "all computer users," nor would it affect her. I
was certain it would turn out to be yet another MS-Bug being tickled,
and was I right or what?
The best way to secure PCs is to remove all traces of Microsoft slop-
ware from them, even the boot sector.
--
"Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?"
Wes Peters Softweyr LLC
http://www.softweyr.com/~softweyr wes@softweyr.com
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