From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu May 4 11:34:36 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc1.sdca.home.com (ha1.rdc1.sdca.home.com [24.0.3.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC2A737C1A4 for ; Thu, 4 May 2000 11:34:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jgowdy@home.com) Received: from cx443070a ([24.4.93.90]) by mail.rdc1.sdca.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.00 201-229-116) with SMTP id <20000504183416.RKTS13130.mail.rdc1.sdca.home.com@cx443070a>; Thu, 4 May 2000 11:34:16 -0700 Message-ID: <002b01bfb5f7$568d17a0$5a5d0418@vista1.sdca.home.com> From: "Jeremiah Gowdy" To: "Taavi Talvik" , "Matthew Dillon" Cc: "Lloyd Rennie" , References: Subject: Re: ILOVEYOU Date: Thu, 4 May 2000 11:34:08 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4132.2100 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4132.2100 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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