From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Oct 25 18:34:55 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from smtp03.primenet.com (smtp03.primenet.com [206.165.6.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C51D152A5; Mon, 25 Oct 1999 18:34:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr06.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp03.primenet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id SAA04977; Mon, 25 Oct 1999 18:34:33 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr06.primenet.com(206.165.6.206) via SMTP by smtp03.primenet.com, id smtpdAAA6raaQj; Mon Oct 25 18:34:23 1999 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr06.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA23052; Mon, 25 Oct 1999 18:34:33 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199910260134.SAA23052@usr06.primenet.com> Subject: Re: Hotmail security vulnerability (viruses) (fwd) To: jack@germanium.xtalwind.net (jack) Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1999 01:34:32 +0000 (GMT) Cc: kris@hub.freebsd.org, chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "jack" at Oct 25, 99 04:25:11 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > 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