From owner-freebsd-security Tue Dec 4 14:51:21 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from cage.simianscience.com (cage.simianscience.com [64.7.134.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 206A937B41D for ; Tue, 4 Dec 2001 14:51:06 -0800 (PST) Received: (from root@localhost) by cage.simianscience.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id fB4Mp5W25682 for freebsd-security@freebsd.org; Tue, 4 Dec 2001 17:51:05 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from chimp.sentex.net (fcage [192.168.0.2]) by cage.simianscience.com (8.11.6/8.11.6av) with ESMTP id fB4Mp2k25674 for ; Tue, 4 Dec 2001 17:51:02 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.0.20011204174731.0510a110@192.168.0.12> X-Sender: mdtancsa@192.168.0.12 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2001 17:51:01 -0500 To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org From: Mike Tancsa Subject: Virus scanners (was RE: Hi (off-topic)) In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS perl-10 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 At 04:29 PM 12/4/2001 -0600, Chuck Rock wrote: >It's the same as saying if you can't protect your own equipment then stop >using a computer. > >I think you should quit blaming the admins. A lot of people got this virus >even though they had virus scanners in place. Sometimes sh*t happens. Deal >with it. Especially since this particular virus propagation has been very fast. In order to block it with NAI's product I had to use the extra.dat file as they have yet to release the production .dat file that has the signature. Combine that with the fact that many non tech people think that because a company has a virus scanner in place, an attachment is automatically safe to open.... ---Mike -------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400 Sentex Communications, mike@sentex.net Providing Internet since 1994 www.sentex.net Cambridge, Ontario Canada www.sentex.net/mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message