Date: Thu, 4 May 2000 11:34:08 -0700 From: "Jeremiah Gowdy" <jgowdy@home.com> To: "Taavi Talvik" <taavi@uninet.ee>, "Matthew Dillon" <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> Cc: "Lloyd Rennie" <lloyd@vbc.net>, <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: ILOVEYOU Message-ID: <002b01bfb5f7$568d17a0$5a5d0418@vista1.sdca.home.com> References: <Pine.BSF.3.95.1000504191900.21985A-100000@ns.uninet.ee>
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> Yes, it was real virus and quite nasty one. Which remainds us, > that quite soon we cannot live without freebsd naitive virus > scanning engine. Such things don't spread so easily, when ISPs > are able to scan e-mail and other content they serve. lol. The only way you could really have a virus in freebsd is if it was launched or infected as root. Otherwise the virus would be VERY limited. If you are talking about scanning incoming email for viruses/scripts that were destined for Windows computers, ok, I'd say that's not a bad idea. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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