Hello David!
30 Mar 97 01:14, David Calafrancesco wrote to Stephen Haffly:
 SH>> I received a warning about mail from Microsoft mail (and
 SH>> possibly Microsoft Exchange) that could carry a nasty payload
 SH>> as well.  Since the channel through which that warning came was
 SH>> an official channel, I consider it to be a valid warning.
Very.  He is talking about the security vunerablities of Internet Explorer.  
It is now banned on all Department of Defense computers.
 DC> How official? I have had network administrators at major corporations
 DC> go bonkers over this crap in the past. I actually interviewed at a
 DC> place in the city that was going nust because they had just heard of
 DC> the good times virus and were scrambling to add security to their
 DC> internal mail system. They didn't even have external mail connections
 DC> and didn't understand that the alert was a hoax in the first place.
Whew.  They needed help.
 DC> No... the urban legend is loosely based on reality, MS wrote a lot of
 DC> macro stuff into Word and other things and unfortunatley never
 DC> bothered to add security or limits, after all that might slow down
 DC> their software and make real software look pretty damn good.
They did after Concept hit MS headquarters.  I don't read or detach any MS 
Word stuff at work (as a government employee, I'm forced to) unless it has a 
Macro scan done on it.  We were hit with Concept and Wazzu.  I'm lucky, I 
guess, and have always used scanners.  Of course, this was after my home 
system was struck with the MonkeyB virus.  It did not come from the Internet, 
however.
James
... Microsoft: Where do you want to wait today?
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