If they are in fact unprotected by a firewall, it's likely they are receiving popups from all kinds of people... we can only hope they read yours. Personally I'd be interested in the script you end up using - I'm assuming you'd call smbclient to generate the popup - an interesting experiment...
m/ > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of jef moskot > Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 2004 3:50 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [Clamav-users] Ethics Question > > > On Wed, 9 Jun 2004, Mitch (WebCob) wrote: > > We are sending this notification as a public service. Please contact > > your computer support person or visit one of the many PC Antivirus > > providers. Many have free solutions to your problem. > > That does sound reasonable to me. I wonder if there isn't a technical > reason why this might be a Bad Idea, though. For example, it used to be > courteous to send an e-mail to a sender to let them know their computer > was infected, but now trying to do things like that is a nuisance because > it's highly unlikely that you're actually going to be contacting the > original sender. > > Popping up a message on the machine with the proper IP number of the > source of the infection sounds useful at best and harmless at worst...but > is it really harmless? Could these popups interrupt running processes on > poorly configured servers and such? > > Jeffrey Moskot > System Administrator > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: GNOME Foundation Hackers Unite! GUADEC: The world's #1 Open Source Desktop Event. GNOME Users and Developers European Conference, 28-30th June in Norway http://2004/guadec.org _______________________________________________ Clamav-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/clamav-users
