Re: Linux Functionality?
On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 11:15:01AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-12-26 at 10:50 -0500, Carl Fink wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Very true. It's just that Unixish MUAs Aren't That Stupid. And,
> filesystem permissions would limit the damage to user-owned files.
Without taking up the issue of "my mailer is better than Outlook" (of
course it is) XP's filesystem permissions *also* limit damage to
user-owned files.
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Carl Fink carl@fink.to
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