[28521] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Virus Update
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roeland Meyer (E-mail))
Thu May 4 16:42:14 2000
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From: "Roeland Meyer (E-mail)" <rmeyer@mhsc.com>
To: "'Eric A. Hall'" <ehall@ehsco.com>,
"'Branden R. Williams'" <brw@netvitality.net>
Cc: <nanog@merit.edu>, <bugtraq@securityfocus.com>
Date: Thu, 4 May 2000 13:40:05 -0700
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AFAICT, Frontpage server extentions, under many flavors of *nix, can =
also execute VBS files, as can the ChiliSoft ASP stuff.
BTW, VSD files are Visio drawings. You want to block VBS files.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu]On Behalf Of
> Eric A. Hall
> Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2000 11:08 AM
> To: Branden R. Williams
> Cc: nanog@merit.edu; bugtraq@securityfocus.com
> Subject: Re: Virus Update
>=20
>=20
>=20
>=20
> > I would assume that if you are not on a Windows platform that you
> > are not affected.
>=20
> You are safe from most of these as long as you don't use a mailer that
> wantonly executes VB script. Outlook for Windows is the specific
> culprit, not Windows.
>=20
> --=20
> Eric A. Hall =20
> ehall@ehsco.com
> +1-650-685-0557 =20
> http://www.ehsco.com
