[3082] in WWW Security List Archive
Re: New and destructive word macro virus
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (mol@ecmwf.int)
Wed Sep 25 22:56:29 1996
From: mol@ecmwf.int
To: ivan@club-internet.fr
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 1996 02:04:16 +0100 (BST)
Cc: www-security@@ns2.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <32498850.6780@club-internet.fr> from "ivan" at Sep 25, 96 09:30:24 pm
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
In a previous mail , ivan wrote :
>
> A new macro virus word has been found
>
Please, please THINK of the title of this mailing list:
www-security
Your mail may be about about security but NOT www ! Yes, I know www could be
be used to serve word documents as well (which would be nice to all those
people wanting to keep www as the most open standard possible, but this too
is off subject).
I understand you have an urgent problem, but if I am burglared, which
is definitly a security issue, I still wouldn't post to the www-security
but turn to the police. So please send this sort of posting to some other
relevant mailing list like pc-security, word-viruses whatever.
If every single new PC virus leads to a posting to this list, the whole
day won't suffice to scan all the messages, not even reading them all ...
Hope I am not going to start a flame war, this is not my intention.
--
Philippe Parmentier E-mail : P.Parmentier@ecmwf.int
Snail : ECMWF, Shinfield Park, Reading, Berkshire RG2 9AX, U.K.
