From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Oct 25 13:25:25 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from germanium.xtalwind.net (germanium.xtalwind.net [205.160.242.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BE581521B; Mon, 25 Oct 1999 13:25:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jack@germanium.xtalwind.net) Received: from localhost (jack@localhost) by germanium.xtalwind.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA92156; Mon, 25 Oct 1999 16:25:11 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 25 Oct 1999 16:25:11 -0400 (EDT) From: jack To: Kris Kennaway Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Hotmail security vulnerability (viruses) (fwd) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Today Kris Kennaway wrote: > Hotmail's engineers could not fix the problem because Hotmail runs on > FreeBSD Unix, according to Star Internet. And Network Associates, which > owns anti-virus software maker McAfee -- has produced a fourth version of > McAfee anti-virus scanner that can detect Melissa-style macro viruses, but > that version does not run on the FreeBSD Unix operating system used by > Hotmail. IIRC, it is only the front end that runs on FreeBSD. The back (mail) end is sun HW and SW. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jack O'Neill Systems Administrator / Systems Analyst jack@germanium.xtalwind.net Crystal Wind Communications, Inc. Finger jack@germanium.xtalwind.net for my PGP key. PGP Key fingerprint = F6 C4 E6 D4 2F 15 A7 67 FD 09 E9 3C 5F CC EB CD enriched, vcard, HTML messages > /dev/null -------------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message