Re: (yet again) [Fwd: Virus Alert]
"Rick Macdonald wrote:"
>
> On Mon, 19 Aug 1996, Christopher R. Hertel wrote:
>
> > : Not true. You can't get a virus from reading an email message.
> >
> > Actually, that depends upon your E'mail system. [...]
> >
> > ...but that's a hole in Microsoft mail. Obviously, this kind of thing
> > could not be done via the standard Unix mail system (unless you had a
> > MIME-aware mail reader that was willing to run Java code for you...
> > Oooops!)
>
> Actually...
>
> I don't use emacs for email, but apparently its mail reader uses the emacs
> "enable-local-variables" feature. And, apparently, some mischief can be
> done by this mechanism. [...]
>
> Perhaps someone on the list is more familiar with this issue and emacs
> mail.
See Linux Journal #24 (April 1996) for an interesting article on this
and related topics. Nutshell synopsis: be *very* careful with your
MIME mail setup!
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Bill Roman (roman@songdog.eskimo.com / roman@songdog.uucp) running linux
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