Microsoft Corp., for its part, said the virus was not indicative of any particular vulnerability associated with Microsoft Outlook. Hi all, I just pulled this off of Reuters and had to share it. It's the official M$ response to the "I LOVE YOU" virus. I just about fell out of my chair when I read it. Anyway, I got 11 of the viruses on 120 clients, as well as 2 faxes of the source code (this is one the news didn't talk about-- it also called pagers). We had no infections, thanks in no small part to CERT's most excellent job of getting the word out. Also, thanks to making the decision not to support Outlook as an e-mail client. Finally, thanks to the fact that we use sendmail, not Exchange to do our e-mail. In the area I live in, most of the emergency services use Exchange and Outlook. This trojan shut down their networks... Not that I want to pat Open Source on the back-- I can't help but wonder how many people died today due to that jerk's actions. Anyway, here's what a spin-doctor at Mickey$oft has to say about it, courtesy of Reuters-- prepare to gag. Cheers, Dennis -------------BS follows----------- ``Viruses are really an industry-wide issue,'' said Scott Culp, program manager for Microsoft's security response center. ''They can be written for any platform. They can be written to use a variety of e-mail clients. ``In this case the virus author chose to target Outlook probably because it gave him better reach,'' he said. ``There isn't a security vulnerability in Outlook involved in this at all,'' Culp said. ------------end BS------------- "Custard pies are a sort of esperanto: a universal language." --Noel Godin -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/