From: Paul Jakma (paul at domain clubi.ie)
Date: Fri 05 May 2000 - 01:30:37 IST
On Thu, 4 May 2000, Brian Scanlan wrote:
Why the big deal made over some stupid Windows virus?
and it's not even a virus! It's the unix equivalent of a shell
script! And it's only possible cause of the massive security flaws of
Outlook and MS's whole COM[1]/VB integration mentality.
This isn't a virus, this isn't even malicious. It's just showing up
Outlook on Windows for what it really is: *A remote shell*.[2]
And all the bloody media coverage made me sick. Only one report that
i saw even made the merest mention that this was /only/ an Outlook
problem.. aaarrrggghhh....
Brian.
regards,
-- Paul Jakma paul at domain clubi.ie PGP5 key: http://www.clubi.ie/jakma/publickey.txt ------------------------------------------- Fortune: In the Halls of Justice the only justice is in the halls. -- Lenny Bruce [1] or whatever they're calling it at the moment. [2] Pine had a bug a while ago with the same effect.
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