Re: ILOVEYOU

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From
Jeremiah Gowdy <jgowdy@home.com>
Date
4 May 2000 11:34:36
Subject
Re: ILOVEYOU
Message-ID
002b01bfb5f7$568d17a0$5a5d0418@vista1.sdca.home.com

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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.




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