[UCLA-LUG] I Love You virus

[David Braginsky]

Look, what if someone shut down the us power grid, what if someone launched
a nuclear attack? If someone is going to build a good business on this, they
will make sure it's not hacked. Have a bunch of sysadmins sitting around
monitoring the server 24-7, that sorta thing.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-admin@linux.ucla.edu [mailto:linux-admin@linux.ucla.edu]On
> Behalf Of Todd A. Lyons
> Sent: Sunday, May 07, 2000 7:41 AM
> To: linux@linux.ucla.edu
> Subject: Re: [UCLA-LUG] I Love You virus
>
>
> David Braginsky wrote:
> >
> > How about an extension to mail servers that allows blocking messages
> > containing a certain bit pattern from being forwarded. This
> software could
> > monitor an online database, and as soon as the virus is
> discovered and added
> > to the db, all enabled servers will no longer forward it. The
> same approach
>
> And when this central repository is hacked and the bit pattern "From"
> gets added to it, then what?
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