From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 22 09:07:31 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C72E16A4B3 for ; Mon, 22 Sep 2003 09:07:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from stork.mail.pas.earthlink.net (stork.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.188]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F67643FEA for ; Mon, 22 Sep 2003 09:07:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from algould@datawok.com) Received: from 22-15.lctv-b4.cablelynx.com ([24.204.22.15] helo=yoda.datawok.com) by stork.mail.pas.earthlink.net with asmtp (TLSv1:RC4-MD5:128) (Exim 3.33 #1) id 1A1TDk-0005me-00; Mon, 22 Sep 2003 09:07:29 -0700 From: "Andrew L. Gould" To: Kent Stewart Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 11:07:27 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 References: <019f01c3811b$ba3b62a0$15b55042@vizion2000.net> <200309220822.31758.kstewart@owt.com> In-Reply-To: <200309220822.31758.kstewart@owt.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200309221107.27929.algould@datawok.com> X-ELNK-Trace: ee791d459e3d6817d780f4a490ca69564776905774d2ac4b8ff5394bde2112358636afaa9d47fb2b350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Someone on list with latest virus? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 16:07:31 -0000 On Monday 22 September 2003 10:22 am, Kent Stewart wrote: > On Monday 22 September 2003 08:10 am, vizion communication wrote: > > I agree that a number of people on this list have been > > affected by the virus and it is really helpful of you to > > have posted to the list because those infected are sending > > out huge volumes of emails to some of us on the list. > > > > I would recomend that everyone on this list checks their > > system if it is vulnerable at the earliest opportunity and > > remove the virus from their system. I am receiving over 100 > > emails a day from infected systems. > > I agree and I am seeing similar quanties of virus infected emails. Since > they are arriving from sites around the world, they have to be people > on the FreeBSD lists. You can't do anything else and write all of their > ISPs. > > The problem seem to be that a large number of people are using unpatched > versions of Windows emailers. The fix to prevent infection by something > as simple as previewing an email was made available at Microsoft's > Windows update site (http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com) in 2001. > > Anyone with an infected computer can find disinfection instructions and > a "Recovery" program at > http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/w32gibef.html > > Matthew's comment about the infection rate at Symmantec still seems to > be appropriate. I have logged more than 20 sites and I am only doing 1 > in 30+ sampling. > > Kent > > > David I do my emailing from FreeBSD; but I empathize with any Windows user's fear of patching/updating. I updated my Win2K with a "critical update" yesterday using Microsoft's online updating utility (no, not from an email link!); and it trashed the OS. The repair utilities on the installation CD have been useless. I now have to find the time to reinstall. I spent the night reviewing the list of apps I can't replace in FreeBSD. The list keeps getting smaller (along with the motivation to reinstall). Andrew Gould