[28528] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Virus Update
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg A. Woods)
Thu May 4 20:08:45 2000
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From: woods@weird.com (Greg A. Woods)
To: nanog@merit.edu
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Reply-To: woods@weird.com (Greg A. Woods)
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Date: Thu, 4 May 2000 20:06:42 -0400 (EDT)
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[ On Thursday, May 4, 2000 at 18:56:15 (-0400), David Charlap wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: Virus Update
>
> Many mail programs (including Netscape Communicator) have no VBS support
> in them, so they can not execute virusses like this one.
Well I don't know about NS and such, but I do know that the relative
size of the impact of this particular virus was both predicted, and is
due almost entirely to the business practices of Microsoft and the
sometimes sheep-like user-base they've fooled into following them to
wherever Bill wants to go today....
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Greg A. Woods
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