-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 25 July 2002 08:46 pm, you wrote:
Well, fair enough, but when I think about viruses I think about email viruses. Any other kind requires that you run binaries from untrusted sources, and if you do that you deserve anything you get.
Sorry, but this is important. I think most of us run binaries from untrusted sources. It's a fact of life. Time to update thinking.
And last time I checked no email clients in linux were scriptable or executed binary code, so no chance of any "Outlook effect" here.
Here's an example of an email which uses <iframe> in the message to *instantly*execute*the*attachment*: <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY> <iframe src=cid:Ule09MxWJ6a042KKL3l height=0 width=0> </iframe> <FONT></FONT></BODY></HTML> No consideration allowed... Don't use HTML, as many of us do? Maybe you click the attach in a moment of fatigue or distraction.
To me there are no viruses, there are security related bugs and exploits of them. Yes you need to be careful about security, and yes you should have security measures installed to handle it.
But running f-prot on linux files is not one of them.
Well you should be running =something=. I'm just tellin' ya... Is anyone using McAfee? - -- Any stone in your boot always migrates against the pressure gradient to exactly the point of most pressure. -- Milt Barber -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEARECAAYFAj1AwVcACgkQnQ18+PFcZJvClACfZ9NmCZ4hzdShae8ZSyP2bf7s r+kAn3sI3khdVbNJb9sQ3yxwfx8+2WW1 =zYWI -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----