Enough with the MS bashing, please

From: allisonp <allisonp_at_world.std.com>
Date: Fri May 5 16:57:30 2000

>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


Loveletter can't. There are worms/virus out there that can. If a network
drive
(regardless of the host OS) has an open point of attach say like a
fileserver
that accessable point is vunerable though it's limited byt the OS how far
that
can extend to. I looked at Linux/samba and that would be limited to what
samba provided to the network so the OS would be safe(unless there was
overlap)
but you could lose a lot of data.

Allison
Received on Fri May 05 2000 - 16:57:30 BST