[ILUG] ROFL

[Burke, Gary : GIG IS&T]

> > http://www.theregister.co.uk/000510-000011.html
> >
> >   Love Bug affects Linux: MS spokeswoman's crazed claim
> >
> >   A spokeswoman for Microsoft Benelux in the Netherlands has claimed
> that
> >   the love bug affects both Linux and Apple, in an interview with Egbert
> >   Kalse, a journalist with the Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad. The
> story
> >   subsequently appeared on the front page of the newspaper last Friday,
> >   and included:  "A spokesperson from Microsoft Benelux denies [the
> virus
> >   only spreads on Microsoft software] and said that other operating
> >   systems such as Apple and Linux are hit."
> 
Wasn't there an article on Slashdot yesterday pointing to an article on CNN
saying that Linux users were not affected by the bug?

Typical MS FUD.  It probably has some truth in it, though.  If you were
using Sendmail under Linux for your mail handling, and your users were using
Outlook, then sendmail would be affected in that there would be a large
number of emails generated by the worm which would slow it down a bit.

Note that the article, and the quote, don't mention how Linux and Apple are
hit.



Gary
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