Re: unix and email viruses
On 03/03/2008, Octavio Alvarez <alvarezp@alvarezp.ods.org> wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-03-02 at 15:59 -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >
>
> > I debian or other 'nix suceptible in any way to anything anybody can put
> > in an email? I'm guessing that if someone comes up with something that
> > can break e.g. mutt that mutt will be fixed around the same time as a
> > virus scanner would be updated.
>
>
> Just thinking out loud: Maybe some image attack via a web beacon? Not
> necesarily for mutt, though.
Thunderbird, Evolution, and Kmail now ship with the default setting
NOT to download images from the web, nor to return receipts. The user
must explicitly enable this 'feature'.
Dotan Cohen
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A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
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