RE: [dvd-discuss] W32.Klez.H infection on of our group member's PC

["Richard Hartman" <hartman(at)onetouch.com>]

The news doesn't report on UNIX vulnerabilities
because UNIX is not popular.  Go to www.cert.org
and search on UNIX if you want to see what's
out there.


-- 
-Richard M. Hartman
hartman@onetouch.com

186,000 mi/sec: not just a good idea, it's the LAW!



> -----Original Message-----
> From: D. C. Sessions [mailto:dcs@lumbercartel.com]
> Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2003 6:20 AM
> To: dvd-discuss@eon.law.harvard.edu
> Subject: Re: [dvd-discuss] W32.Klez.H infection on of our 
> group member's
> PC
> 
> 
> On Wednesday 02 July 2003 17:20, juergen + barbara wrote:
> # of course, there are also known viruses on UNIX machines.
> # this was an attachment anyway; so no harm as long one does 
> not attempt to
> # open it...
> 
> Really?  It hasn't hit the news yet.
> I know that there's a vulnerability in old versions of PDF
> which are architecture-independent, but I hadn't heard
> that there was actually a mass-mail exploit for it.
> 
> # -----Original Message-----
> # From: majordomo-owner@eon.law.harvard.edu
> # [mailto:majordomo-owner@eon.law.harvard.edu]On Behalf Of 
> Glendon Gross
> # Sent: Mittwoch, 02. Juli 2003 11:48
> # To: dvd-discuss@eon.law.harvard.edu
> # Subject: Re: [dvd-discuss] W32.Klez.H infection on of our 
> group member's
> # PC
> # 
> # 
> # 
> # This is one reason I prefer not to use Windows on the 
> machine on which I
> # read
> # e-mail.   Reading mail from a UNIX machine is much more 
> secure.  Such a
> # practice also
> # seems to reduce the number of unwanted commercial 
> solicitations, since
> # no executable
> # can run with system-wide permissions.
> # 
> # Regards,
> # 
> # Glendon Gross
> # 
> # 
> # > juergen + barbara wrote:
> # >
> # >
> # > please do update and run AntiVirus scanners on a frequent basis!
> # >
> # > since this virus also fakes the sender of the infectious emails, I
> # > urge anybody to look into their email address book and see whether
> # > they have an entry shown below as "Sender".  Then, most 
> likely, some
> # > serious AntiVirus update and scan appears to be in order!
> # >
> # > This Virus has been first reported over a year ago!
> # > (More info at http://symantec.com/AVcenter/.)
> # >
> # >
> # > thanks,
> # >      jm.
> # >
> # >
> # >
> # > Sender: jon <jon@nanocrew.net>
> # > Recipient: dvd-discuss@eon.law.harvard.edu
> # > Subject: [dvd-discuss] Look,my beautiful girl friend
> # >
> # >
> # >
> # 
> # 
> # 
> 
> -- 
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> |  the strength to change the things I cannot accept, and the   |
> |    cunning to hide the bodies of those who got in my way.     |
> +------------- D. C. Sessions <dcs@lumbercartel.com> -----------+
> 
> 
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