Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1999 01:34:32 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: jack@germanium.xtalwind.net (jack) Cc: kris@hub.freebsd.org, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Hotmail security vulnerability (viruses) (fwd) Message-ID: <199910260134.SAA23052@usr06.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.20.9910251622490.91975-100000@germanium.xtalwind.net> from "jack" at Oct 25, 99 04:25:11 pm
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> > 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. Most likely, this is a Sun issue, not a FreeBSD issue. The SMTP virus scanner that McAfee sells is only available for NT at this time. Also, the McAfee software in question is written in Java, and just needs a JVM and glue into the mail delivery path to run; HotMail is a big enough customer that they could get a port, given the amount of money they'd have to flush to get the software, in any case. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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