RE: Source of virus.

[Scott Stone <SStone@example.com>]

yup yup..  Client I was at used exclusively Lotus Notes, which was also
unaffected.  The Notes admins hate it, but from a security standpoint, I
like it.  Couple that with the fact that:

1) the Notes client works great under WINE
2) the Notes server has been ported from the native OS/2 (yes, really) to
NT, Solaris, and I think Linux soon as well.

from a standpoint of how much the actual mail client SUCKS ASS, Outlook and
Notes are about equal, IMHO.  Then again, I'm a tree hugger[1].


[1] no, I'm not a militant environmentalist, I just prefer pine...

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Scott M. Stone <sstone@example.com>
Senior Technical Consultant - UNIX and Networking
Taos, the Sysadmin Company - Santa Clara, CA


-----Original Message-----
From: Oliver M . Bolzer [mailto:oliver@example.com]
Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2001 10:43 AM
To: tlug@example.com
Subject: Re: Source of virus.


On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 01:46:37AM +0900 Yong-Ming P.Hua :

>Well I have to use NT, Win2000, 98, even 95, and turbolinux and slackware.
My
>students got this virus and the virus is causing a hell of a trouble right
now.
 
> No way to get out of Office on campus you know...

I remember when the i love virus hit my university's busisiness
administration
dept. First, most of the machines were wiped, secondly they were using
Exchange
and had lots and lots of trouble to get all the infected mails off their
mail spools.

At the CS dept. we were ROTFL. All clients Linux and cleaning (as a
service to those doing S/IMAP, S/POP ) was a small shell-script that
iterated over all user's Maildirs and removed infected mail. 5min job.
-- 

	Oliver M. Bolzer
	oliver@example.com

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