FreeBSD implicated in HotMail security problems

Tim Behrendsen writes "TechWeb is running an article claiming that Hotmail is not filtering all known viruses. Microsoft claims in return that the problem lies with running under FreeBSD. Bad publicity for Free Software? IMO, it's a bit unfair to call it a MS security problem, since normal ISP e-mail servers don't filter viruses, either."

Meta-comment: For what it's worth, this is exactly the sort of story the BSD section is for. It mentions a BSD (in this case, FreeBSD, although it could have been any of them) in passing, and isn't really sufficiently technically detailed or newsworthy for the front page. But it's still of passing interest.