Rocky McGaugh wrote:
Can we politely flame his network administrator? This *IS* obviously someone's fault.
I'm only 1/2 serious, but something still "enables" these things to happen. In a commercial environment, the only way these things can spread is by neglect of the person responsible for the network.
This raises an interesting point. Is there some way to counteract these type of worms (that replicate themselves via your email address book)? Possibly a script to detect sudden increases in mail activity from a user who doesn't normally send bulk emails? Or maybe something to deny users sending more than a certain number of mails in a hit, without being members of a "bulkmail" group? Just a few braindrops :-) AFAIK, the biggest spread of these worms is via corporate sites, where some people have address books numbering in the hundreds. -- Regards Don Hansford ECKYTECH COMPUTING Surfing the Net (without crashing) With SuSE 6.4 Linux (Thanx Linus!) "Microsoft democratised the computer market and served as a catalyst in making computers available to everybody. Later, however, they did as many revolutionaries do -- they became dictators. History has taught us the inevitable fate of dictators." -- 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/