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Date:      Wed, 30 Jul 2003 09:09:11 -0400
From:      Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com>
To:        Chip Morton <2m5mefx02@sneakemail.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Chat <chat@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Microsoft Network Security Pack
Message-ID:  <3F27C377.7070100@potentialtech.com>
In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20030730085801.01a9e5b8@threespace.com>
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Chip Morton wrote:
> Well, I'm glad that I finally got invited to this semi-exclusive club.  
> I guess I should start thinking about security issues now...

"semi-exclusive club"?

You mean the one where we all get junk mail that isn't even targeted at
us (such as Windows trojans, that don't even do anything exciting on
FreeBSD, or viagra adverts, which address the wrong problem (I need a
_date_ not a bigger ****))

Well, it's not a very fun club.  We mostly just bitch about being
members.  Welcome, nonetheless.

> At 11:52 AM 7/29/2003, Bill Moran wrote:
> 
>> Chip Morton wrote:
>>
>>> Did anybody else get an e-mail message like this, or was I targeted 
>>> specifically?  This actually came with an attachment called 
>>> UPDATE107.EXE that was about 152 KB in size.
>>
>>
>> This is a Windows trojan.  I've been getting about one a week.


-- 
Bill Moran
Potential Technologies
http://www.potentialtech.com



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