Sircam

[jdm at world.std.com (John Malloy)]

Okay.

Here is a correction:

There is no way World could be infected with the SirCam email virus, since
the virus can only be propagated through computers using Microsoft's
Outlook and Outlook Express email clients running under the Windows
operating system. All of our servers run Unix and could not be infected
with this virus.
However, we did have to take steps to prevent the SirCam virus being
transmitted *though* our servers, since it does spread via email. This did
result in some delays, but things seem to have settled down for now. When
people all over the internet start checking mail Monday morning, there
could very well be another increase in virus activity.

Software Tool & Die
Manager, Customer Support

Yes, I know that the World uses Unix servers, of course.

The tech support guy did tell me that they were "affected" on their "servers".

Any more info would be greatly appreciated (ie, corrective action).

Thanks!

JM


At 11:40 PM 8/5/2001 -0400, Jerry Feldman wrote:
>That makes no sense. The World systems are all Unix(SGI). The Sircam virus
>affects only Windows 9x (not even Windows NT or Windows 2000). The World
>did have a problem last week where we logged I/O errors trying to send
>email to World recipients.  All eventually were transmitted.
>John Malloy wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > Anyone get infected by the Sircan virus/worm late last week?
> >
> > The "World" systems were affected.
>--
>Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
>Boston Linux and Unix user group
>http://www.blu.org
>
>
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Thanks!

John Malloy
jdm at world.std.com

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