Enough with the MS bashing, please

From: Doug Salot <doug_at_blinkenlights.com>
Date: Fri May 5 16:47:52 2000

On Fri, 5 May 2000, Gareth Knight wrote:

> This made me think of the possibility that the I Love You virus could affect
> other systems. Does the virus only rename files on the host drive or can it
> spread to a hardfile mounted on Windows desktop or network connections?

If you've got Samba running on a unix server, and a Samba-exported
filesystem is mounted on some lame Windows box, and a lame Windows user
decides to activate this Microsoft-enabled virus, then sure, Microsoft
lameness can infect non-MS systems to some extent.

Cheers,
Doug
Received on Fri May 05 2000 - 16:47:52 BST