From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Oct 25 13:11: 7 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix, from userid 758) id 638EE14C45; Mon, 25 Oct 1999 13:11:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 51A3C1CD437 for ; Mon, 25 Oct 1999 13:11:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@hub.freebsd.org) Date: Mon, 25 Oct 1999 13:11:06 -0700 (PDT) From: Kris Kennaway To: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hotmail security vulnerability (viruses) (fwd) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-ID: Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org From the referenced article (see below): Hotmail's engineers could not fix the problem because Hotmail runs on FreeBSD Unix, according to Star Internet. And Network Associates, which owns anti-virus software maker McAfee -- has produced a fourth version of McAfee anti-virus scanner that can detect Melissa-style macro viruses, but that version does not run on the FreeBSD Unix operating system used by Hotmail. ---- I guess the Linux vscan port doesn't do email scanning..does anyone know of something that does? I'm just curious.. Kris ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 22 Oct 1999 19:20:33 +0100 From: "Xander Teunissen (Thejian)" To: BUGTRAQ@securityfocus.com Subject: Re: Hotmail security vulnerability (viruses) >While we are discussing Hotmail, has anyone noticed that Hotmail's virus >scanner doesn't detect most macro viruses - including any of the Melissa >varients? This article (published on Techweb last friday) notes that problem yes. It's not much of a solution (none at all, come to think of it) but it shows yet another of the problems this service is dealing with and exposing it's users to. http://techweb.com/wire/story/TWB19991015S0016 Xander Teunissen ------------------------------------------------------- E-MAIL thejian@net-security.org HNS http://net-security.org DEFAULT Newsletter: http://default.net-security.org PGP http://net-security.org/pgp/thejian ------------------------------------------------------- "I have a shotgun, a shovel, and five acres behind the house. Do not trifle with me." echelon: FBI CIA NSA IRS ATF BATF Malcolm X Militia Gun Handgun MILGOV Assault Rifle Terrorism Bomb Drug Force Constituition Bill Of Rights...etc To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message