No worries, David. While Gerry is running IIS, it does *NOT* have Outlook, Outlook Express, M$'s SMTP server, etc...or any other mail client installed. What this means is that even if Gerry had gotten the virus (WHICH IT HASN'T), there executable files needed to send out the worm to others simply are not there. TomC -----Original Message----- From: David Brodbeck [mailto:gull@GULL.US] Sent: Friday, August 22, 2003 8:47 AM To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM Subject: Re: virus
On Fri, 22 Aug 2003, Ian Anderson wrote: > Quick question. As part of this virus attack I'm getting failed > delivery e-mails related to the virus. But I've only recieved these > e-mails and the virus from members of syncro.org and the vanagon list. > Someone better check the servers. That probably just means only those people have your address available on their computers. I doubt it's the servers that are infected, though in the case of gerry.vanagon.com it's theoretically possible, since it seems to be running Microsoft IIS. syncro.org appears to be running Linux, so it should be immune.
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