Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2001 16:11:44 -0600 From: "J e f f r e y D . G o r d o n" <JGordon@Alliante.com> To: <freebsd-security@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Mail list is posting gone virus!!!! Message-ID: <01d701c17d10$a8b334b0$0001300a@lhtech.lhtek.com> References: <C1EC3AA970F8D311BA4D0050BAB07BA870491B@nhex1101.cologic.co.nz>
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Arjen,
This Internet Worm has NOTHING to do with freebsd's security. :-)
This has everything to do with Internet Worms taking advantage of other
operating systems and applications.
Virus checking is not a FreeBSD standard thing to do (but it can do it
quite well if you want it to, /usr/ports/security/amavis-perl ).
To my knowledge the FreeBSD mailing lists have too much traffic to run a
virus checker (and I don't blame them for not checking if they don't), plus
this virus pattern was RELEASED THIS AFTERNOON.
Any sane NetAdmin would be checking for new definitions only once a day,
during the early morning or late evening.
(Internet Worm security is in the hands of the Computer Owner who
usually gets an OEM copy of a virus checker with his./her computer. If the
user doesn't wish to update their virus definitions regularly you get this
for more than a week).
Please don't attack FreeBSD's rock solid Internet security as a server
to problems with other environments.
Cheers!
Jeff
----- Original Message -----
From: "Arjen De Landgraaf" <arjen.de.landgraaf@cologic.co.nz>
To: <freebsd-security@freebsd.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2001 4:05 PM
Subject: Mail list is posting gone virus!!!!
>
> Not a good advertisement for freebsd security.
> We have already received 3 copies of the gone virus through your list.
>
> Arjen de Landgraaf
> E-Secure-IT
> Auckland
> New Zealand
>
> www.e-secure-it.co.nz
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