-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Wednesday 2007-08-08 at 10:53 -0400, Michael Letourneau wrote:
No, screen savers are actually executable programs, not data. You normally do not call them directly, but "something" does.
My bad. But the idea is still pertinent and though they are executable, how many other desktop artifacts are not? Skins, backgrounds, and window decorations come to mind. Yes its definitely not a straightforward or likely method at all to be manipulated.
It would be a problem if the program using those files has a hole, like a memory overflow. And those problems are detected now and then. The Gimp had one plugged this week, for instance. Not a virus, though, and not the user's fault.
But I think the other person's point was that if "x" is not executable, then it cannot do any harm, which I think is a naive assumption,
It "shouldn't" cause any problem.
plenty of programs read in data, and if those programs are not properly written that data can be used to trigger events. Not the least of which is any program that has scripting tied into it, whether that be macros or otherwise.
Yes, that might happen. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFGulLotTMYHG2NR9URAgq8AJ9zFYWAXDWgvuGfaC2dac2Fveto7ACghKJ1 ORyRRaFcjAP4VUQV0AnVNHY= =Xdji -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org