Re: [Full-Disclosure] RE: Full-disclosure digest, Vol 1 #715 - 2 msgs

[Etaoin Shrdlu <shrdlu () deaddrop org>]

"Jeffers, Steve (AZ)" wrote:

...as did MANY others...

> Please note the following detection of a virus.

Puh-leeze, folks. Turn the dang things off, ok? This is a full-disclosure
list. If your mail agents are going to puke every time something
virus-looking crosses their threshold, at least be kind enough not to share
it with the rest of us. We KNOW it was a virus. That's what Brad said. He
thought it was a virus or trojan.

> Network Associates WebShield SMTP V4.5 on amer07 detected virus
> W32/Gibe.gen@MM in attachment unknown from
> <full-disclosure-admin () lists netsys com> and it was Deleted and Quarantined.

So what do we take away with this message? Do we know something that we
didn't before you felt it necessary to add to the noise? Yippee whatever.
Nice that your virus scanner kept you from seeing the truly entertaining
joke of the week. There were three or four interesting comments on this
(although some of them could have been phrased a bit kinder, Nick), and a
whole bunch of "Wow! My virus scanner detected a virus!" Uh-huh.

If you are reading a mailing list that is talking about vulnerabilities,
and you are doing it from a mail client that is as vulnerable as LookOut,
you have bigger problems than the cross site scripting bug of the week. I
get viruses embedded in .wav files all the time. Even if I was using
something that had a sound card, I sure wouldn't use a mail reader that
wanted to open it. Ah, well. Back to the next buffer overflow.

--
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies,
but the silence of our friends.
                    Martin Luther King
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