[UCLA-LUG] I Love You virus

[David Braginsky]

Perhaps you have misunderstood the intention. I don't care about an
individual user's files if they are too stupid to know when not to run
random attachments. I care about mailservers that get pounded to death with
email, go offline, and cause endless problems for other users. I was simply
suggesting a way to prevent the mailservers from crashing.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-admin@linux.ucla.edu [mailto:linux-admin@linux.ucla.edu]On
> Behalf Of chris
> Sent: Sunday, May 07, 2000 4:46 PM
> To: linux@linux.ucla.edu
> Subject: RE: [UCLA-LUG] I Love You virus
>
>
> On Sun, 7 May 2000, David Braginsky wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> huh?  what are you talking about?  mail is transit.  if you're worried
> about a virus, get yourself a decent virus scanner.  don't do stupid
> things like open and run random attachments.  don't expect somebody else
> to take care of things for you.
>
> ooh, yeah, let's make laws!  that'll stop those evil criminals for sure!
> get real.  i mean, that's essentially what you're advocating... fix the
> symptom, not the problem.  you want to fix the problem, go and educate
> your users about the 95 different things they can do to not be stupid.
>
> i mean, you're talking about a situation where, in a crime ridden town
> [the "internet"], people leave their homes unlocked, regularly invite the
> criminal element inside and show them where their best stuff is.... and
> are surprised when they wake up the next day and it's all gone.  and your
> solution is.... "hire more cops and make everybody register with the
> police department".  go big brother.  duh.
>
> how about instead, educate your users.  teach them that people are evil
> and will send them evil things.  teach them to lock their own doors.
>
>
> -chris
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