From: Jamie McCarthy (jamieMCCARTHY.ORG)
Date: Thu May 04 2000 - 09:23:29 CDT

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Are you guys still arguing about "Piranha," an obscure utility for
Red Hat whose default password a few newbie sysadmins might not have
changed?

Meanwhile, another Melissa-style virus is rampaging through Asia,
Europe and America, crashing SMTP servers, flooding T1 lines,
apparently taking down an ISP referenced in its source code
(skyinet.net), and causing panic in investment banks and other
professional corporations worldwide:

http://msnbc.com/news/403350.asp

   May 4 ‹ A computer virus spread by e-mail messages titled
   ³ILOVEYOU² infected Asian, European and American computers today,
   apparently hitting public relations firms and investment banks in
   Asia particularly hard.

Are you really still arguing that "quality control" is weak on Linux,
even while thousands of sysadmins are beating their heads against the
wall because of Microsoft's infantile and inadequate email security?
(Who decided that executing scripts from email would be a good idea?)

Are we _still_ pointing the finger at "Piranha" while the net
collapses in flames around us?
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        Jamie McCarthy
        jamiemccarthy.org
 http://jamie.mccarthy.org/

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