Re: Regarding a recent virus that reached my Radsafers address

["Franz Schoenhofer" <franz.schoenhofer@CHELLO.AT>]

Private:

Franz Schoenhofer

Habicherg. 31/7

A-1160 Vienna, AUSTRIA

Phone: -43 699 11681319

e-mail: franz.schoenhofer@chello.at



Office:

MR Dr. Franz Schoenhofer

Federal Ministry for Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water Management

Dep. I/8U, Radiation Protection

Radetzkystr. 2

A-1031 Vienna, AUSTRIA

phone: +43-1-71100-4458

fax: +43-1-7122331

e-mail: franz.schoenhofer@bmu.gv.at







-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----

Von: Michael Kay <makay43@HOME.COM>

An: Bjorn Cedervall <bcradsafers@HOTMAIL.COM>; radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu

<radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu>

Datum: Sonntag, 12. August 2001 00:57

Betreff: Re: Regarding a recent virus that reached my Radsafers address





>I think it appropriate to send this off topic message in light of the

>severity of recent malicious code attacks on Radsafe and email in general.

>



>To become educated and get a link to the best, FREE, firewall go to

>http://www.grc.com







I visited this site, but - contrary to you - I could not find a link to a

free firewall.



I am far from being a computer expert, but what I understand from this site,

is that there are a lot of bombastic descriptions, which supposedly only

computer professionals understand - if at all, The final aim seems to have

readers lured to provide their e-mail addresses to receive "information" and

to buy products.



To have a PC, an internet connection and an e-mail address cannot result in

having the obligation to become a (pseudo) computer specialist, who

constantly has to check dozens of sites and journals to find out about the

latest worm, trojan horse or virus and to either buy or download new

software. In the case of this "RED"-worm, which only infects users of

Windows 2000 and Windows NT I just wonder, why one has to register for that.

Should not Microsoft inform all those, who registered, about the problems

and provide them instantly with anti-worm software? The ones, who have not

registered, because they have the software from piracy: It would be their

problem they have to struggle with.



The topic is maybe not so much off topic. I see a similar method as it is

used with "radioactivity": First you scare people and then you sell the

remidy.



Franz







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