Andrew Brown wrote:
Also, if you use sendmail, there is a patch available for Sendmail 8.9.x ... doesn't work with 8.10.x - available in the normal places - which will stop the virus at your gateway..
http://www2.sendmail.com/loveletter/
and it says it works in all versions of sendmail 8.9.x and above...perhaps you were looking at something else?
At the time, only the 8.9.x was available. Because I am not a conspiracy theorist, I probably don't think that this was a grand way for Metallica to solve the napster problem in one broad swoop. The virus nails all .mp2 and .mp3 files, as well as .jpg and .jpg. :-)
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