Re: URGENT: attention, this is a virus WAS: new photos from my party!
On Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 03:57:30PM +0100, Hans-Christian Armingeon wrote:
> The mail with the Subject "new photos from my party!" is a virus!!!
Yes? So? Actually, I think such things should technically be called
worms (although some may have viruses as payloads). In any case, they
only affect people foolish enough to use MS Outlook. Which doesn't
even run on Debian systems.
> I think, we should have a virus scanner for the list.
Why on earth should we bother? Why should Debian waste one second on
people who aren't using Debian systems?
Granted, it's also spam, and as such, would be nice to filter out _as
spam_, but the fact that this particular spam happens to be dangerous
to idiots doesn't make it special in my book. The Nigerian money-
laundering spam is also dangerous to idiots, but that doesn't mean we
need a separate special scanner for it.
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