VanLUG Email Archive
Alan Hodgson (ahodgson@simkin.com)
Sat, 27 Mar 1999 13:10:15 -0800
On Fri, Mar 26, 1999 at 08:30:23PM -0800, Ted Powell wrote:
> http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2233030,00.html
>
> Epidemic virus infects corporate e-mail
> 'Melissa' virus wreaks havoc with company e-mail.
>
> An unidentified company had 60,000 people affected. Microsoft suspended
> all incoming and outgoing Internet mail.
>
> Well, that's their reward for using MS software...
>
Melissa's pretty nasty. Microsoft actually told one of our larger
customers that their entire E-mail system "died", not just had to
be disconnected from the Internet.
CERT put out an advisory this morning that said dozens of "large"
sites had their mail systems creamed by this virus.
-- Linux: because a PC is a terrible thing to waste
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