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Re: Virus Update

  • From: Rodney Joffe
  • Date: Thu May 04 15:19:44 2000


Andrew Brown wrote:
> 
> >Also, if you use sendmail, there is a patch available for Sendmail 8.9.x
> >...  doesn't work with 8.10.x - available in the normal places - which
> >will stop the virus at your gateway..
> 
> http://www2.sendmail.com/loveletter/
> 
> and it says it works in all versions of sendmail 8.9.x and
> above...perhaps you were looking at something else?

At the time, only the 8.9.x was available.

Because I am not a conspiracy theorist, I probably don't think that this
was a grand way for Metallica to solve the napster problem in one broad
swoop. The virus nails all .mp2 and .mp3 files, as well as .jpg and
.jpg.

:-)


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