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Re: FBI Virus Alerts
From: Gary Maltzen <maltzen () MM COM>
Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2001 11:36:32 -0500
Isn't this rather a "Chicken Little" ("The sky is falling!") approach? I certainly get enough forwarded forwarded (hoax) virus "warnings" from well-meaning friends who have no clue where to check on the accuracy and invariably end up responding to a (long) list of addressees (since they also haven't a clue about BCC) listing URLs where they can go see that the message was a hoax. I should think RESPONSIBLE reporting would involve taking the time to check the accuracy of the story before passing it on. If I understand the charter of this list, it is to exchange information about anomalies leading to early detection of attacks. ~Gary ----- attributed to <info () safer-hex com> ----- ...[snip]... then I don't wait until their webmasters wake up but forward it to my readers who expect me to do just that and not wait until I have the first samples in our editorial mail boxes to check if it's real. period! Dre. p.s. I'm aware that many a/v vendors sometimes create a hype but we have the policy better to warn to often but ASAP, rather than to warn when it's too late. -- [ C A M R I N N E T W O R K ] the jrpamc.com internet information services [jrpamc () camrin net] : [http://www.camrin.net] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- This list is provided by the SecurityFocus ARIS analyzer service. For more information on this free incident handling, management and tracking system please see: http://aris.securityfocus.com
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