5 May
2000
5 May
'00
2:59 p.m.
On Fri, May 05, 2000 at 06:57:36PM -0600, Gary Hildebrand wrote:
*** Beginning of forwarded message ***
[...]
It struck me as odd that they were trying to
"educate" people about how to
be safe without ever mentioning the fact that nearly all of the nasty
email viruses are confined to Microsoft products.
One of the "news" websites (www.abcnews.com maybe?) had a nice list of
"things you can do to protect yourself from email viruses", and I thought
it was very interesting that "avoid M$ products!!!" wasn't on the list.
It's too bad the net has turned into such an appliance. In the old days,
each site often implemented their own TCP/IP stack and SMTP/FTP/etc. servers
from scratch, so even if they had security flaws they
weren't well-known.
Returning to that might have some advantages ... I know
someone who munged
in a fake version banner in his wu.ftpd just so the crackers would be more
likely to leave him alone, worth a shot!
John Wilson
D Bit