OT-Re: Question on email virus in Outlook Express

[hanasaki]

Just remember that installing a M$ application under Crossover/Wine also 
installs support for M$ virus', and thus opens up any Wine Exposed Linux 
partitions to said virus'.

Brian Densmore wrote:
> Sigh. This would be hilarious if it wasn't so damn sad.
> 
> When are those M$ people going to get a clue? Well good news around the
> bend. With the stable release of Wine 1.0, maybe it won't be an issue
> anymore. I am going to bring home a proprietary app I use at work and
> see if I can get it to install and run under Wine. The need for this one
> app is the only reason I have a M$ partition on my notebook. It sure
> would be nice to free up all that diskspace. :')
> And if it becomes necessary, I may also get my company to get me a copy
> of Crossover for Office. Sadly though, this will be a game of always
> being one step behind M$. When Office XP2003 comes out we'll see all new
> proprietary formats.
> 
> <rant>
> And since we're off-topic, a rant.
> Got Linux Firewalls, Second Edition (Zieglar/New Riders) over the
> weekend.
> Excellent book, but ... written in M$ Word!!!!!!!!!
> I'm -=really Pissed=-! 
> I didn't look at the back inside cover before buying ( I was too busy
> enjoying the content).
> 
> Review: Once you get past the editing software issue, the book is well
> organized. A brief lesson on the internet protocols and fundamentals,
> security issues and what a firewall is. Then straight into a description
> of iptables, with some reference to ipchains. The remainder of the book
> builds a iptables firewall step by step explaining what, how, where, and
> why (chapter 4). Then optimizing the firewall (chapter 5), and then on
> to advanced issues (6 & 7), debugging (8), and security & monitoring (9
> thru 13). The appendices give the firewalls built in the chapters in a
> complete view and support scripts.
> An excellent tutorial, and reference with plenty of internet references.
> 
> Any user could easily build a nice firewall with the instructions
> provided within.
> 
> I would rate this with 5 penguins if not for the M$ issue.
> rating: 4 penguins
> </rant>
> 
> Brian
> 
> [snip]
> 
>>You're correct.  This has been discussed a bit lately on 
>>BUGTRAQ.  A good
>>description of the problem can be found at
>>http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1/263469.
>>
> 
> [snip]
> 
> 
> 

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