Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 15, No. 176.
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
<http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/>
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Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 08:00:51 +0100
From: Brother Anthony <anthony@ccs.sogang.ac.kr>
Subject: Re: 15.173 silences
For information on the Sircam Worm see
http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.sircam.worm@mm.html
In the last couple of weeks the whole world has been flooded with these
things (well, I have, at least, and lots of others) What rather
surprises me (to put it mildly) is that a major American University's
Computer center does not have anti-virus firewalls to filter out such
things. Here (in Sogang University, Seoul) every incoming email message
(and its attachments) is automatically scanned on arrival for all
identified viruses and either cleaned or purged before arriving in our
mailboxes with a note informing us of what virus was detected and
whether the attached file was cleaned or deleted. I think you (and
anyone else in your position) should protest strongly to your server
keepers if you ever receive an email still infected with an already
identified virus. As for the lack of new messages, I believe it is
related to that other plague of the modern world, usually known as
"vacations". It seems to have infected all other lists as well. I doubt
if there is a cure, except the due passage of time.
Brother Anthony
Sogang University, Seoul, Korea
http://www.sogang.ac.kr/~anthony
[Many thanks to several other Humanists who wrote to me about Sircam, which
prompted me to acquire anti-viral software, which in turn informed me about
some seriously bad online activities, which make arguing for what Milton
called "unlicensed printing" rather more challenging. --WM]
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