On 2015-11-09 17:36, cagsm wrote:
On Mon, Nov 9, 2015 at 5:20 PM, Patrick Shanahan <> wrote:
Where are you suddenly coming from? I replied to some carlos guy thread to the list. Also if the mail is text only then why worry what the text reads? Text email is text email. It cant be executed.
People, calm down :-) All email is text, even when it contains pictures. It is a text based protocol. :-p In this case, it contains a zipped attachment, which expands to something.doc.js. Ie, javascript text, which may be executed. Typically Linux tools do not attempt to execute programs coming by email, but it can be done with some insistent and clever clicking on the mouse. I never tried to execute it. So it did not execute. My question, not because it poses a danger to me, is whether this particular type of trojan (that's what I think it is) poses a real danger in Linux or not. Clamav does not signal it, and it is the only antivirus that currently has a Linux version that I know of. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar)