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Date:      Mon, 25 Oct 1999 13:31:12 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@hub.freebsd.org>
To:        jack <jack@germanium.xtalwind.net>
Cc:        chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Hotmail security vulnerability (viruses) (fwd)
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910251329550.59784-100000@hub.freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.20.9910251622490.91975-100000@germanium.xtalwind.net>

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On Mon, 25 Oct 1999, jack wrote:

> 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.

My question still stands, and that _was_ still quoted as the reason..

Kris



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