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Old 09-08-2003, 02:55 PM   #1 (permalink)
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I'm still getting V-mail... are you?

Yep, "V" mail as in viri attached.... so glad to be using Linux ...my family all use Linux for email and internet as well.... I don't let them use Windows

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Old 09-08-2003, 03:39 PM   #2 (permalink)
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I'm figuring some dope w/ me in his address book has the Sobig virus. Just since yesterday, I've gotten like 40+ e-mails to my Yahoo! account. Luckily that's there just for this reason.

All pretty much have the same Subject line too;

Your Details
Re: Details
Re: Re: My Details
Re: Wicked screensaver

All have an attached "your_document.pif" or "movie0045.pif" or "your_details.pif" or "document_9446.pif".
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Old 09-08-2003, 03:41 PM   #3 (permalink)
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Nope, not received any at home or work. I guess I am lucky that my ISP bothers to scan their mail feeds.

At work we are almost 100% MS Windows (except for one OpenBSD box that runs as a bridge) and we haven't been had any issues. I spent the time to setup a filter on the traffic coming in and out of our Exchange 2003 server and placed it behind a smarthost running Postfix which provides another level of protection.

The ability to disable via GPO all the really risky Outlook features combined with a SUS server for automated critical updates and virus scanners on all the clients means I really don't lose much sleep over viruses, I think we have had only a handful of infected files in the last 3 years and they have just been cleaned and dropped in the central quarantine.

Don't get me wrong, I like Linux as much (if not more) than the next guy. However this is something of a random troll

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On a related note, IMO computer security is 90%+ common sense and good admin practices and relatively little to do with the OS (atleast on a Windows Vs Linux level). Just as some people run unpatched Windows machines with no virus protection plenty of people run linux boxes with every port under the sun open to the world, do everything as root and never apply security updates. *shrug*
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Old 09-08-2003, 04:37 PM   #4 (permalink)
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I havent gotten any in my yahoo account or my pop3 home account
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Old 09-08-2003, 04:40 PM   #5 (permalink)
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so glad to be using Linux ...my family all use Linux for email and internet as well.... I don't let them use Windows
How nice of you there CMonster
Actually I havent recieved any V-mail, and I also use Linux a lot for the casual thing such as web browsing and e-mailing

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Old 09-08-2003, 04:59 PM   #6 (permalink)
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I must be lucky or something. I haven't gotten any of the recent viriuses making the rounds.
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Old 09-09-2003, 08:33 AM   #7 (permalink)
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Don't get me wrong, I like Linux as much (if not more) than the next guy. However this is something of a random troll
-yeah, I know it would be if it was posted in any other forum.


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-there is nothing as UNcommon as common sense
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Old 09-09-2003, 11:26 AM   #8 (permalink)
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I have been getting them every now and then. Luckily I always seem to be running Linux instead of Windows when I check my e-mail.
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