From owner-freebsd-security Tue Dec 4 14:14:33 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from michael.lhtek.com (michael.lhtek.com [63.145.41.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BF6D237B41B for ; Tue, 4 Dec 2001 14:14:21 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 24859 invoked by uid 1005); 4 Dec 2001 22:14:21 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO JGordon) (64.57.224.219) by michael.lhtek.com with SMTP; 4 Dec 2001 22:14:20 -0000 Message-ID: <01d701c17d10$a8b334b0$0001300a@lhtech.lhtek.com> From: "J e f f r e y D . G o r d o n" To: References: Subject: Re: Mail list is posting gone virus!!!! Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2001 16:11:44 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-2" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS perl-11 Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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" To: 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 > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message