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Re: unix and email viruses



On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 04:32:26PM -0800, David Fox wrote:

> For that to work, various helper apps would have to be run as root or
> with root privileges. Normally i would not suspect a pic or other
> 'data' to try and be executable anyway.

By definition, if your user can send mail, your can serve as a spam
zombie.

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