| gabriel rosenkoetter on Tue, 18 Dec 2001 12:30:17 +0100 |
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> On Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 03:29:02PM -0500, Michael Leone wrote: > > Well, it's usually not the server, but the client, that is infected. On Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 09:28:06PM -0500, Bill Jonas wrote: > I think she means that she's logged in to her server, sending mail from > there. That's what I do. There are two different definitions of "server" going on here. Both are valid, but not when mixed. Bill means "server" as in host. Michael means "server" as in mail transport agent. There can well be a "client" (Michael) on a "server" (Bill), and it could theoretically be infected with a virus, even if the operating system on the host were Linux. (Actually, a remail-to-an-addressbook style of virus to affect mutt users would be fairly easy to write, but quite hard to get the average mutt user to actually execute. mutt, a well-behaved MUA, doesn't do things it hasn't been explicitly told to do.) -- gabriel rosenkoetter gr@eclipsed.net Attachment:
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