Re: FBI Virus Alerts

From: Gary Maltzen (maltzen@MM.COM)
Date: 09/30/01 

Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20010930111950.0374a638@pop.mm.com>
Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2001 11:36:32 -0500
To: info <info@safer-hex.com>
From: Gary Maltzen <maltzen@MM.COM>
Subject: Re: FBI Virus Alerts

Isn't this rather a "Chicken Little" ("The sky is falling!") approach?

I certainly get enough forwarded forwarded (hoax) virus "warnings" from well-meaning friends who have no clue where to check on the accuracy and invariably end up responding to a (long) list of addressees (since they also haven't a clue about BCC) listing URLs where they can go see that the message was a hoax.

I should think RESPONSIBLE reporting would involve taking the time to check the accuracy of the story before passing it on.

If I understand the charter of this list, it is to exchange information about anomalies leading to early detection of attacks.

~Gary

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then I don't wait until their webmasters wake up but forward it to my readers who expect me to do just that and not wait until I have the first samples in our editorial mail boxes to check if it's real.

period!

Dre.

p.s. I'm aware that many a/v vendors sometimes create a hype but we have the policy better to warn to often but ASAP, rather than to warn when it's too late. 

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