[ale] Interesting trojan attempt?

[jwl at sgi.com (Jim Lynch)]

Heck, we sell Linux boxes and still IS is hung up on MS.  Exchange
servers everywhere.  Fortunately they haven't yet forced us to use
them.  

Jim.

Debrihmi wrote:
> 
> Nope, they just moved us from Netscape over to Outlook (so we could conform
> company standards)  I've been preaching Linux for well over a year; some of
> the IT folks agree but nothing has ever been done..  I've recently made new
> Linux car tags for our LUG and just happen to go to the office to rag on the
> boss about his choice in OSes, and to try to prod him to a meeting..  It just
> so happens that at that very moment one of the IT guys was spazzing out over
> the bug in the system, so I took the opportunity to mime behind the guy
> "Linux! Lunix!.. MS a no-no!" while pointing to my new tag..  The IT guy did
> not find it funny, but the boss and I had a laugh, however, that is far as any
> Linux related stuff gets in our big company..  Its frustrating to say the least..
> 
> ~
> Debrihmi
> 
> On Sun, 03 Aug 2003 16:53:01 -0400, Geoffrey wrote
> > Debrihmi wrote:
> > > Yeah it's a pain..  Our company is all MS and we got hit on Friday..
> > > Tell ya something, when you're in the middle of production the first
> > > thing you do is just open your email so you can read it and get it
> > > out of the way..  Needless to say I we had a hell of a time (1500 +
> > > people); they had to shutdown the server just to get a handle on it..
> > > I hope that tomorrow everything is back to normal..
> >
> > Did they learn anything from the experience?  Will the move to a
> > more secure platform.  I doubt it. :(
> >
> > --
> > Until later: Geoffrey         esoteric at 3times25.net
> >
> > The latest, most widespread virus?  Microsoft end user agreement.
> > Think about it...
> >
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