On Wed, 25 Apr 2001, InfoSec News wrote:
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/8/18516.html
[snip]
> According to a copy of the notice sent to The Register: "Microsoft
> expects the FunLove infection period spanned approximately two weeks,
> from Friday, April 6, 2001 to Friday, April 20, 2001."
[snip]
> Despite what is, by any standard, a monumental security cock-up by
> Microsoft, Chien said the problem is likely to have a "low impact"
> because FunLove is an older virus that almost all the security giants
> partners and enterprise customers are likely to be protected against.
So anybody who isn't an "enterprise customer" and doesn't have up-to-date
virus infection is irrelevant from their point of view? Good thing too,
because Joe Average is Microsoft's biggest customer, and he's gonna be mad
as hell =)
> The FunLove virus stopped production at Dell for two days in November
> 1999 and the virus is considered a particularly nasty bug.
Cheers, Chris.
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Received on Fri Apr 27 03:52 CDT 2001