| gabriel rosenkoetter on Fri, 21 Dec 2001 19:20:23 +0100 |
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On Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 12:02:24PM -0400, Arthur S. Alexion wrote: > Which raises the question: Like Typhoid Mary, can we, Linux users, pass > on a virus without ourselves becoming infected? Of course, but not without some agency on our part. This isn't restricted to Linux (or even to Unix-like operating systems), but to any MUA that's not Outlook [Express]. The point is that MS MUAs open, load, and (potentially) execute attachments without the explicit bidding of the user. This is all it takes to do the wrong thing, and it'd be quite easy to write an MUA for Linux that did the same thing. -- gabriel rosenkoetter gr@eclipsed.net Attachment:
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