[UCLA-LUG] I Love You virus

[David Braginsky]

Well, this is just a more annoying version of the old Melissa, which could
be viewed the same way. Its not good news for mail servers regardless of
what it does to your desktop.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-admin@linux.ucla.edu [mailto:linux-admin@linux.ucla.edu]On
> Behalf Of Frederick Lee
> Sent: Saturday, May 06, 2000 9:48 PM
> To: linux@linux.ucla.edu
> Subject: Re: [UCLA-LUG] I Love You virus
>
>
> On Sat, 6 May 2000 22:50:03 -0400 (EDT), said Matt Helsley
> <larva@lillith.mit.edu>:
> >On Fri, 5 May 2000, Clara Wu wrote:
> >> Within today, i got 5 times virus alert!
> >>
> >> Don't know how to say, i just feel i choose linux is correct decision
> >> and i am free of those virus :)
> >
> >I feel that linux is ONE correct choice. MacOS is the another. While macs
> >may be suceptible to SOME winblows virii, this is only because they can
> >run M$ software. Funny how M$ propagates more virii than any other 'easy
> >to use' OS.
> >
> >	Be OS is another good choice- it's got a stable UI, POSIX layer,
> >and a NICE API (think JDK, but cleaner, and in C++).
> >
> >There is only ONE problem with virii alerts- I get more virii alerts than
> >I do virii!!! :?)
>
> I just realized something interesting... if not for the
> destructive aspect,
> and a little bit more planning, this could have been a very good
> real-world
> test of the Six Degrees (Of Separation) Theory -- that any one
> person can be
> connected to another in a chain of friend-of-a-friend within six
> hops (degrees).
> ("A friend of a friend of a friend of a friend of a friend of a friend of
> mine is Linus Torvalds!")
>
> Or maybe something akin to calculating the width of the WWW, which was
> something like the average number of hyperlinks to get to any one
> random site
> from another, but done in the e-mail world instead.
>
> On another note, I haven't gotten *anything* in my mailbox wrt to this
> particular strain of mail watchamacallit (virus? worm? Microsoft
> Innovation(TM)?).
> I sorta feel left out.
>
>
> -Fred
>
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