Re: FW: Reuters.com - Internet Worm Disguised as E-Mail from Microsoft - Mon May 19, 2003 03:09 PM ET

[antonio at nambu.uem.mz]

The problem is that we are not dealing with only our pc's and 
servers but all our clients who generally use Microsoft products 
which promote virus in our networks and eventually even bring 
down the whole network which is not difficult considering our 
bandwidth.

Cheers,



On 21 May 2003 at 12:46, Brian Longwe wrote:

> 
> > This is an operators list - if you're concerned about this
> > virus thing, you might consider switching.
> >
> 
> I have had users who've been hit by email viruses:
> - choke up my outgoing queues on an old sendmail box
> - infect, re-infect and generally cause chaos to each other
> - take up a lot of my staff's time going in to conduct 'cleanups' (we
> charge for it - but I have better things for my staff to be doing)
> - take up a lot of my helpdesk's time on the phone
> 
> If these are not *African* operator issues, then maybe it's only me who
> has this trouble.
> 
> But I seriously doubt it because I've "been there, done that..."
> 
> Let's face it, the degree of clue and sophistication of our clients (and
> our networks) still has some ground to cover before we are arguing about
> which encapsulation is better for gigabit transmission, like you guys do
> ;-)
> 
> Longwe
> 
> 
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