On 1 Apr 99, at 10:06, Evan Leibovitch wrote:
> On Thu, 1 Apr 1999, Leonardo Boselli wrote:
> > I recived a lot of such "viruses" on my NT machine, but no one did
> > harm, since the MUA I use do not open attachment "spontaneously" ...
> True. But NT boxes are still affected since they're the ones that fall
> over so easily as a result. It doesn't take much volume of mail going
> through an NT box before you can count it as a Denial of Service attack...
I agree, but DoS is when i, instead doing network administration,
receive about 20 messages, three phone call, two visit a day
talking about hoaxes ...
and at lesat a machine a week to reinstall due people fiddling with
antivirus of various origin, that lock the machine as soon they try to
install an audio card !
Leonardo Boselli
nucleo informatico e telematico
Dipartimento Ingegneria Civile
Universita` di Firenze
V. S. Marta 3 - I-50139 Firenze
tel +39()0554796431 fax +39()055495333
http://www.dicea.unifi.it/~leo
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