I just wanted to apologize for spamming the list (by spamming the list) with my attempt at humor ... I was just thinking about e-mail viruses, and I felt nostalgic about a time where e-mail viruses were a joke that could never happen because, quite simply (with exception of those people who used emacs) our mail reader was just a mail reader ... a method to display text on a text console. Some days I miss that. Other days, I just revel in gmail and get over it. So yeah, sorry 'bout that. I hope that at least three of you saw the humor ... 'cause then my ramblings weren't a complete waste of CPU cycles. Cheers, Lee On 4/28/05, Lee Keyser-Allen wrote:

Are you talking about on the Windows side, or the Linux side??

The one virus that you should be concerned with on the Linux side is a particularly insideous virus called the "Good Times" virus. This has been around since the early 90s and can target any e-mail system. It continues its resurgence despite repeated efforts to put it down.

You can find out more about it and how to protect against it at: http://ciac.llnl.gov/ciac/notes/Notes09.shtml or google Goodtimes virus.

Consider this my public service for the year.

Yours in virus protection,

Lee

On 4/27/05, Jerome Walczak wrote:

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Fedora 1 - Realtek card (swapped out the MN-130) - dualboot with Win ME - and working like a charm:) It's so much faster cleaner and better than the old Windows that I wish I could get rid of Win entirely but I know if I do somebody'll complain so it stays. Now - what're good security measures for a public internet terminal (which is basically what it is)? I already have the firewall set at a high level, but what should I do beyond that? Do I need to setup some form of antivirus protection?

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