From owner-freebsd-security Wed Mar 31 22:26:44 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from obie.softweyr.com (unknown [204.68.178.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34AB5151AF for ; Wed, 31 Mar 1999 22:26:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from softweyr.com (wes@zaphod.softweyr.com [204.68.178.35]) by obie.softweyr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA05108; Wed, 31 Mar 1999 23:26:09 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Message-ID: <37031181.D0D91D6E@softweyr.com> Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 23:26:09 -0700 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr llc X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: ben@rosengart.com Cc: Brett Glass , "'freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG'" Subject: Re: Virus Announcements References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message