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. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabootu's Minister of Proofreading http://www.jabootu.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
