Re: explanation of the noise (was Re: Norton AntiVirus detected and quarantined a virus in a message you sent.)
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On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 08:16:26PM -0400, Bret Comstock Waldow wrote:
> > Because your average /var/log/XFree86.0.log is longer than 2K ;-)
>
> Don't send it as an attachment - inline it. Malware must be sent as an
> attachment - information can be put in the body (although someone might
> want to send a screen capture or something).
It's not a binary, it's ASCII. And what you say applies only if
you're sending to morons who open every binary attachment without
fail, or take the opposite (and equally harmful) view and strip every
attachment without consideration.
- --
.''`. Paul Johnson <baloo@ursine.ca>
: :' : proud Debian admin and user
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`- Debian - when you have better things to do than fix a system
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