-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Friday 2007-03-09 at 23:01 +1100, Magnus Boman wrote:
I think there is somewhere a misconception of what a virus is. _no virus can come on if nothing infected is executed_.
Hmm... Sorry, I am no expert in the window world. The fact was that he had SOMETHING nasty on his computer.
That might be. A worm, for instance. If there are other machines infected in the same intranet, he could easily be exposed. I think xp has some kind of firewall, maybe it was not active.
Win have many drwbacks, and mail attachments can execute without notice with outlook - I never use mail on my window box :-)
Agreed :-)
With certain mail clients, I assume that not all of them do so. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFF8bDDtTMYHG2NR9URAlmdAJ9FRIStsyXZcbg43q1Mr0+Txnt/ZwCff+sD qASnrdgxb+DLSAnbsu5t2iw= =vP7k -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org