[3095] in WWW Security List Archive
Re: New and destructive word macro virus
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Casti)
Thu Sep 26 15:30:48 1996
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 1996 13:30:44 -0400 (EDT)
From: Bill Casti <quire@casti.com>
To: WWW-Security List <www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu>
cc: mol@ecmwf.int
In-Reply-To: <199609260104.CAA00012@skymir>
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
If it was not your intent, then why didn't you just send to the poster
and to the list moderator and let it go at that? I don't think macro
virus postings are inappropriate here, since Word docs are frequently
obtainable through websites.
Regards.
Bill
On Thu, 26 Sep 1996 mol@ecmwf.int wrote:
> 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.
>
