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Richard Clayton (richard@turnpike.com) wrote:
: In article <919637446.4188.2.nnrp-07.9e989747@news.demon.co.uk>, Mike
: Mann <mike@kempston.demon.co.uk> writes

: >In article <36d01f1f.2773795@news.demon.co.uk>,
: >richard@spam.egglestn.demon.co.uk (Richard Eggleston) wrote:
: >
: >>I was wondering, with the recent outbreak of Happy99 
: >>Do ISPs scan EMail or postings for Trojans and Virii,
: >
: >No.

: actually, Freeserve does check for happy99 in both news and mail and
: rejects such messages

Why? I've read the referenced article and done a quick altavista search
on the thing and it seems relatively harmless. As a proof of concept for
something with a more destructive payload then yes I could see cause
for concern but otherwise why this particular one.

: Demon will withdraw posting privileges from customers whose systems are
: known to be contaminated until they have arranged to clean it up.

I realise this falls under the general heading of "anything we didn't think
off when we wrote the AUP is also not allowed" but wouldn't some sort of
announcement of this have been in order. I've never heard it suggested
in the past that posting say word macro viruses was considered a serious
offence. 

Perhaps I'm missing something here but I thought virii were just something
that went with the territory if you choose to run Windows.


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