folks asked about Instant Messenging...

From: Meritt James (meritt_james@bah.com)
Date: 09/27/01 

Message-ID: <3BB32548.2BF86AB2@bah.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 09:10:32 -0400
From: "Meritt James" <meritt_james@bah.com>
To: SECURITY-BASICS@SECURITYFOCUS.COM
Subject: folks asked about Instant Messenging...

Piazza, Peter
   September 27, 2001

   A recent worm called Choke proved that even the strongest anti-virus
software monitoring a company's gateway is powerless if workers are
exposing the network to risks using instant message services.
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Full article at:

http://www.antionline.com/showthread.php?threadid=114871 

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James W. Meritt, CISSP, CISA
Booz, Allen & Hamilton
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