From: "Tim Sinks" <tsinks at isd.net> >The holes are everywhere on the > PC's because of the backward compatibility and the ties created for the DOS > and Windows. I once excused Bill this way myself, but the more I look into the root of all the bloody BOs, the more it looks like crapy programming. Take yesterday's patch for instance. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/02/10/2031219&mode=thread&tid=109&tid=126&tid=172&tid=185&tid=187&tid=190&tid=201 It's a hole in a lower level component for several of M$s products within the NT related OSs. This one's purported to be one of the largest holes yet. Benjamin Betts bmbetts at mail.uophx.edu benjaminbetts at yahoo.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tim Sinks" <tsinks at isd.net> To: "TCLUG Mailing List" <tclug-list at mn-linux.org> Sent: Monday, February 09, 2004 3:40 PM Subject: Re: [TCLUG] Virus Protection > Maybe you don't hate PC's, they are only a machine of limiting > possibilities. What creates this problem is the old M$ and the original set > up of the PC's which is still partly there. CPM, HDos, and others had some > better beginnings, but IBM bought into Bill. The holes are everywhere on the > PC's because of the backward compatibility and the ties created for the DOS > and Windows. Trying to do all things for all people leaves a lot of > openings. > Say thank you to Bell Labs, DEC, and LT for your current enjoyment. > By the way, I haven't received many bad emails lately. It was worse several > weeks back with the other 2 viruses for numbers. > Keep looking up, > Tim Sinks > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Steve Hanson" <shanson at cruiskeen.com> > To: "TCLUG Mailing List" <tclug-list at mn-linux.org> > Sent: Monday, February 09, 2004 3:20 PM > Subject: Re: [TCLUG] Virus Protection > > > > Samuel MacDonald wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > How many MyDoom messages is everyone getting or stopping. > > > Visi's Postini has stopped at least 10 MyDoom and 1 other virus in the > > > last 24 hours. > > > > > > > > > At work I've been logging between 5000 and 10000 per day - > > early last week it was 1 in 4 emails. We seem to be down to > > 1 in 10, so the mail servers are not completely creaking > > under the load any more. > > > > > > I hate PC's. > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > > http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org > > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list