Anyone can drive a truck through an M$ OS, they never put in garage doors! Sam. Benjamin Betts wrote: >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 > > > _______________________________________________ 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