> > When I sent my analysis of the "iloveyou" virus to BugTraq, I was
> > deluged with email - all of them bounces. Because my message started
with
> > "ilove you", many, many mail servers had blocked it. That was within
> > something like 12 hours of the release. Think of the immense amount of
> > headaches the system administrators for those companies saved
themselves.
> > The ounce of prevention was worth a metric ton of cure.
>
> That is supposed to be an example of good effects of virus scanning?
For long-term scanning, no. For immediate needs such as that, it's not
bad. In a large company, it probably saved them a few thousand man-hours
of disinfecting computers.
steve
