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Date:      Thu, 4 May 2000 11:34:08 -0700
From:      "Jeremiah Gowdy" <jgowdy@home.com>
To:        "Taavi Talvik" <taavi@uninet.ee>, "Matthew Dillon" <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
Cc:        "Lloyd Rennie" <lloyd@vbc.net>, <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: ILOVEYOU
Message-ID:  <002b01bfb5f7$568d17a0$5a5d0418@vista1.sdca.home.com>
References:  <Pine.BSF.3.95.1000504191900.21985A-100000@ns.uninet.ee>

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> Yes, it was real virus and quite nasty one. Which remainds us,
> that quite soon we cannot live without freebsd naitive virus
> scanning engine. Such things don't spread so easily, when ISPs
> are able to scan e-mail and other content they serve.

lol.  The only way you could really have a virus in freebsd is if it was
launched or infected as root.  Otherwise the virus would be VERY limited.
If you are talking about scanning incoming email for viruses/scripts that
were destined for Windows computers, ok, I'd say that's not a bad idea.




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