>Remeber ILOVEYOU? No virus scanner on earth would have prevented that.
<from my logs>
Sanitizing MIME attachment headers in "I love you" from <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
to xxxxxx msgid=<snip>
Trapped poisoned executable "LOVE-LETTER-FOR-YOU.TXT.vbs".
We didn't get a single infected machine. The mail server stopped all of
them.
>there is closes commercial software (read: Windows), there will be
>security exploits by the dozen.
There are plenty of security exploits for open source software as well.
That's a non-argument. The one major advantage open source software seems
to have is that the fix is available usually within hours of the exploit
being revealed (if admins keep up with them). Meanwhile MS or whoever is
still denying there is a problem.
