Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <3F1862B7.DB873E93@precidia.com> Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2003 17:12:23 -0400 From: Brian White Organization: Precidia Technologies http://www.precidia.com/ X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew DeFaria CC: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Spammers watching this user forum References: <3F17DD1F.3010409@yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > Don't know of many scenerios where simply receiving an email spreads a > virus. Usually you have to use a non secure email client and do > something dumb like open an attachment. An insecure mail client (i.e. Outlook) is enough. One of the holes it had is that it would open audio attachment automatically just by having the message appear in the preview pane. Unfortunately, the thing was so stupid that "open" would open _any_ type of file based on the file extension, including an executable, even when the content-type was audio of some sort. Brian ( bcwhite@precidia.com ) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Do, or do not. There is no "try". -- Yoda -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/