How about that IBM advertisement where the
executive is talking about how their system
was able to stop a virus before it spread
too far, and then questions how it it got
into the network in the first place.
Then the executive's little girl runs out
of the office and says "Daddy! look a the
new game I just downloaded ..."
I supposed the executive should be fired
at that point.
BT
Tracy Johnson
MSI Schaevitz Sensors
> -----Original Message-----
> From: HP-3000 Systems Discussion [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On
> Behalf Of Roy Brown
> Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2004 5:24 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] Weah, hello! :-)
>
>
> [log in to unmask] wrote:
> > Up to a point, the consumer has to protect himself, but
> terminating users
> > because they've been the victim of a computer virus is akin
> to the police
> > ticketing a hit-and-run victim for crossing the street when
> the driver came
> > through.
> >
> > Look both ways.
>
> Yes, on reflection, I later realised it was probably just an
> 'ordinary' virus, and the List had chopped off the attachment
> with the payload.
>
> W32.Beagle.H@mm in fact, sending a zipped file with the
> password in plain; that uses "Weah, hello! :-)" as one of its
> subjects.
>
> The virus found me in the infected person's address book,
> found the HP3000-L there too, and sent a virus to the List
> under my name.
>
> However, the analogy here re the sender, however innocent,
> isn't hit-and-run victim, it's SARS victim. No-one can blame
> you for catching SARS, but you aren't going to be let run
> round infecting everybody else if you have it.
>
> The same or more so with computer viruses, I reckon, where
> the perp is possibly blameless, but equally possibly hasn't
> been practising safe hex.
>
> My ISP will contact any subscriber sending out virus
> messages, make them aware of the problem and help them, but
> if it doesn't stop, then they are off the 'Net. Same if they
> are running an open relay, even if nothing ever got relayed
> through it. Close it or lose it.
>
> I think that's the way it's got to go universally now...
>
> Roy (really!)
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > ...
> >
> > it will likely go nowhere, mainly because it will
> ultimately be attributed
> > to the work of a virus, and ISP's don't consider this as
> "willful spamming"
> > and/or abuse. (they don't want to shut down a customer in
> otherwise "good"
> > standing, you see...)
> >
> > OTOH, SBC recently announced they WILL start
> terminating/disconnecting
> > accounts based on evidence of viral activity, so perhaps
> the landscape is
> > changing in this regard...
> >
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