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  From: Brendon P. Kelly <kell0172@ist.flinders.edu.au>
  To  : linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au
  Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 13:40:57 +0930 (CST)

Re: Antivirus

On Tue, 30 Mar 1999, Tharmarajah wrote:

> Currently, the latest virus is MELISA it comes as an macro virus on Word
> documents. So how do I control on the e-mails...from spreading the virus
> over our network
> 

AFAIK, the melissa virus goes through the MS outlook and outlook express
address book, so your system would only be susceptible if you are running
outlook or something similar


BK

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