From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 4 11:10: 9 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from home.offwhite.net (home.offwhite.net [156.46.35.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CED7D37C129 for ; Thu, 4 May 2000 11:09:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brennan@offwhite.net) Received: from localhost (brennan@localhost) by home.offwhite.net (8.9.1/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA53913; Thu, 4 May 2000 13:09:46 -0500 (CDT) Date: Thu, 4 May 2000 13:09:46 -0500 (CDT) From: Brennan W Stehling To: Nathan Vidican Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: hoax or not? (re: ILOVEYOU) In-Reply-To: <3911B6A8.84CEA948@wmptl.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG That virus would have sent to this list if it was listed in someone's address book, with Microsoft software. I do not think Netscape processes these macro viruses. Brennan Stehling - web developer and sys admin projects: www.greasydaemon.com | www.onmilwaukee.com | www.sncalumni.com fortune: Living on Earth may be expensive, but it includes an annual free trip around the Sun. On Thu, 4 May 2000, Nathan Vidican wrote: > I'm confused, was or was not the message 'ILOVEYOU' sent to the list > today the real thing, or was it a warning about the real thing? I'm not > asking if the whole deal about the 'virus' is real or not, just > pertaining to the message sent to the list today? > I received it using Netscape Communicator 4.72 on a Win95 Box, through > a FreeBSD mail server on our LAN. I did not open the message, and > assuming it was the 'real thing' if one does not physically open it, it > can't do any harm correct? > > -- > Nathan Vidican > webmaster@wmptl.com > Windsor Match Plate & Tool Ltd. > http://www.wmptl.com/ > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message