Re: Linux Functionality?
On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 04:46:04PM +1100, Sam Watkins wrote:
> from the web or receive it through email, your computer will refuse to
> execute it until you explicitly give it "execute permission". This
> makes it impossible to accidentally get a virus while reading your
> email.
Well, no. Most email viruses are scripts executed by the mailer. If you
have a script-executing mailer there's no reason it couldn't execute a virus
under Linux.
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