nanog mailing list archives

Re: Virus Update


From: Rodney Joffe <rjoffe () centergate com>
Date: Thu, 04 May 2000 12:13:55 -0700




Andrew Brown wrote:

Also, if you use sendmail, there is a patch available for Sendmail 8.9.x
...  doesn't work with 8.10.x - available in the normal places - which
will stop the virus at your gateway..

http://www2.sendmail.com/loveletter/

and it says it works in all versions of sendmail 8.9.x and
above...perhaps you were looking at something else?

At the time, only the 8.9.x was available.

Because I am not a conspiracy theorist, I probably don't think that this
was a grand way for Metallica to solve the napster problem in one broad
swoop. The virus nails all .mp2 and .mp3 files, as well as .jpg and
.jpg.

:-)



--
|-----< "CODE WARRIOR" >-----|
codewarrior () daemon org             * "ah!  i see you have the internet
twofsonet () graffiti com (Andrew Brown)                that goes *ping*!"
andrew () crossbar com       * "information is power -- share the wealth."

-- 
Rodney Joffe
CenterGate Research Group, LLC.
http://www.centergate.com
"Technology so advanced, even we don't understand it!"(SM)



Current thread: