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From: whh@pbhya.PacBell.COM (Wilson Heydt)
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Internet Virus: Really, the vendors *are* paying attention.
Message-ID: <21924@pbhya.PacBell.COM>
Date: 24 Nov 88 21:56:19 GMT
References: <76493@sun.uucp> <580@micropen> <426@auspex.UUCP> <432@amanue.UUCP>
Organization: Pacific * Bell, Oakland, CA
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In article <432@amanue.UUCP>, jr@amanue.UUCP (Jim Rosenberg) writes:
>
> Oh good!!  Just a flipping *LOVELY* Thanksgiving present *THIS* is!  Now would
> you mind telling us how us binary-only licensees not on spaf's magic list will
> find out how to protect ourselves against *THIS* one?  Please don't forget that
> not everyone runs HDB & not everyone has a box where the vendor even provides
> an upgrade to HDB.  Please don't forget that there are *THOUSANDS* of sites
> runing some form of UNIX on very small or personal computers where the system
> administrator is a decent citizen deserving of entry to the information about
> plugging holes but who might well not qualify for security mailing lists.  (A
> few crackers have their own private Xenix box too, no doubt, alas.)

*This* person who runs a small, home, site also has access to the net thru
his job--so at least I know what's going on.  That's the good news.  The bad
news is that the machine is orphaned.  Runs *very* well (for what it is), but
there have been no new relaeses for the last 3 years--nor, so far as I know--
will there ever be.  What do *I* do?

    --Hal

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  Hal Heydt                             |    "Hafnium plus Holmium is
  Analyst, Pacific*Bell                 |     one-point-five, I think."
  415-645-7708                          |       --Dr. Jane Robinson
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