[48836] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Viri capture...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg A. Woods)
Tue Jun 18 15:12:04 2002
From: woods@weird.com (Greg A. Woods)
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Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 15:01:23 -0400 (EDT)
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[ On Tuesday, June 18, 2002 at 18:30:33 (+0100), Stephen J. Wilcox wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: Viri capture...
>
> Are you suggesting us as end users should reprogram every OS and Email
> client rather than run a virus checker?
Alternatives are not rare, difficult to use, or more limited in any
significaant way.
Even patches are not lacking, though in this case patching over such
fundamental design flaws has proven time and time again to be fallible.
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