>This made me think of the possibility that the I Love You virus could
affect
>other systems. Does the virus only rename files on the host drive or can it
Loveletter can't. There are worms/virus out there that can. If a network
drive
(regardless of the host OS) has an open point of attach say like a
fileserver
that accessable point is vunerable though it's limited byt the OS how far
that
can extend to. I looked at Linux/samba and that would be limited to what
samba provided to the network so the OS would be safe(unless there was
overlap)
but you could lose a lot of data.
Allison
> I'm not sure I'd agree completely. I believe one of the OS'
>responsibilities is SYSTEM security. As I sit here hammering away
>on my SGI, there's absolutely nothing Netscape can do to compromise
>the OS or the machine, other than my little corner of it and anything
>I have permissions to write to. We can't say the same about Windoze.
Yep but windoes (8x that is) is basiclly like running from your superuser
account. Would NS be as safe for the system there?
This is a fundemental problem of the dos/win3.1/win9x series, they
operate with few if any protections. There are other OSs where this
is the case as well. Do I like it no, but W95 alone is hard to hurt from
on the net add IE5.0 and thats a whole can of worms.
Allison
Anybody on these lists have the ability to digitize/convert video
>from VHS tape (NTSC) to a computer-readable (MPG preferred, but AVI or
Quicktime would also work) format?
I've got the official Sun video tape of the SPARCstation 10 product
announcement from '92, and I'd like to be able to put it up on
the SunHELP historical-product archives....
Thanks.
Bill
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Derek,
please contact me via email at jlwest(a)tseinc.com (not my normal address)
regarding the list server, can't seem to find your personal email address
for list server updates.
Others - please excuse the bandwidth intrusion!
Jay West
On May 5, allisonp(a)world.std.com wrote:
> As IT people I'd say it's wise to consider that security is not an OS only
> responsability.
I'm not sure I'd agree completely. I believe one of the OS'
responsibilities is SYSTEM security. As I sit here hammering away
on my SGI, there's absolutely nothing Netscape can do to compromise
the OS or the machine, other than my little corner of it and anything
I have permissions to write to. We can't say the same about Windoze.
I could go on and on about this, but we're all experienced
professionals here...you see the point I'm driving at.
-Dave McGuire
-----Original Message-----
From: Gary Hildebrand <ghldbrd(a)ccp.com>
To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Date: Friday, May 05, 2000 1:16 PM
Subject: [KULUA] Nightline (fwd)
>Hello group,
>
>Here's something we all knew already, but we need to educate the
brainwashed
>masses about Microslop . . . Last sentence says it all.
>
>
>*** FORWARDED MESSAGE ***
> Original author: trp0
> Written on: 05-May-00
>*** Beginning of forwarded message ***
>
<some of forwarded message snipped>
> Seems to my like a large majority of even the standard
>viruses live in the MS realm. Wouldn't it strike you as a little alarming
>if the product you are turning out is the target of so many easily
>constructed destructive programs because of the way your product is
>designed and implemented?
>
I think the first sentence is a bit disingenuous. Microsoft is the target
of the large majority of standard viruses because the majority of virus
writers (and everyone else) use Microsoft products. If a platform is
sufficiently popular, some loser will write viruses for it. It seems to me
that some of the smug "my Macintosh/Amiga/etc wasn't bothered by this"
messages I've seen are forgetting that in their heyday, the Amiga/Mac/etc.
had as many viruses problems as the PC.
What Microsoft should get blasted for is not fixing the gaping security
holes in any VBScript-enabled program after Melissa et al. demonstrated how
vulnerable they are.
Ob. ClassicComp content:
At least when the Great Worm of 1988 blasted the Internet, the Unix
community by and large fixed the security holes in sendmail that it
exposed.
What the Internet community has to figure out is how to fix the TCP/IP
protocols so volume-related attacks (mass e-mails, denial of service
attacks) can't cripple big parts of the infrastructure. Imagine how
e-commerce companies fared yesterday, when thousands of companies turned
off all of their Net access, including email and browsers. If e-commerce is
the future, there needs to be a more reliable Net for it to run on.
Just my 2 cents.
Mark
Contact Bernie directly, not me.
-ethan
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From: "Bernie Jalbert" <bernjal(a)starlinx.com>
Subject: Apple IIc
Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 20:56:55 -0400
Plese post this on the cIassiccmp list.
I have available an Apple IIc computer and an Apple Scribe printer with a new
ribbon. The software that goes with it includes Bank Street Writer, Bank Street
Filer and a spreadsheet program.
I am located in Richboro, PA (in Bucks County, north of Philadelphia). My
e-mail address is bernjal(a)starllinx.com
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The original webpage address is still going away. The
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See http://ohio.voyager.net/ for details.
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>Whoa...hold your fire..... while I haven't seen this particular beastie,
my
>BlackIce Defender just set off an alarm for an attack attempt with the
The LOVELETTER worm is real, my partners site is hammered by it.
I got a copy of it today on the shell account <where it's harmless>
and it likely can hurt me much if at all on the NTbox (you need those
virus/worm/trogan helpers like active-x).
No a desktop system at work does not need active-x nor does it need
hotmail/instant-messenger (or chat, netmeeting to name a few more).
Allison
