E-MAIL'S REAL `MENACE'; `STAR WARS' MOVIE TRAILER THREATENS TO CLOG COMPUTERS.Byline: Ben Sullivan Daily News Staff Writer Conventional wisdom has it that George Lucas' ``Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace'' will be by far the biggest force to hit Hollywood in years. Apparently that holds true for corporate computers as well. A Dayton, Ohio-based Internet security ''This article or section is being rewritten at Internet security is the process of protecting data and privacy of devices connected to internet from information robbery, hacking, malware infection and unwanted software. firm is warning clients that a 30-megabyte trailer for the long-awaited film that is being sent across the Internet via e-mail could bring corporate America's messaging systems Software that provides an electronic mail delivery system. It is made up of the following functional components, which may be packaged together or independently. Mail User Agent to a grinding halt. Well, maybe. ``We've caught 28 of them in the last week or so, which is not a lot,'' said Richard Bliss, vice president of marketing for the security firm Allegro (operating system) Allegro - The code name for the major Mac OS release due in mid-1998. http://devworld.apple.com/mkt/informed/appledirections/mar97/roadmap.html. . ``But if six or seven people in a company start sending it around the office it starts to chew up server space real fast.'' Bliss' firm provides an e-mail filtering Email filtering is the processing of e-mail to organize it according to specified criteria. Most often this refers to the automatic processing of incoming messages, but the term also applies to the intervention of human intelligence in addition to artificial intelligence, and to service to about 1,000 corporate clients, removing viruses, chain letters chain letters at height in 1930s, craze crippled postal service. [Am. Hist.: Sann, 97–104] See : Fads , spam and now movie trailers from messages before they reach a company's computer system. Bliss said that as the May 19 release date of the science-fiction film approaches, copies of the trailer - available for download on the Internet since March - likely will multiply, degrading corporate e-mail systems much the way online holiday greeting cards See e-card. do each year in December. An even more chilling scenario, Bliss said, is if a computer hacker were to attach to the trailer a virus that endlessly replicates the large file or, like Monday's Chernobyl virus, wipes out data on computer hard drives. CAPTION(S): Photo PHOTO (Color) no caption (Computer screen displaying the official Star Wars web site) |
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