On Thursday 09 October 2003 16:15, Tal, Shachar wrote:
> > > Which brings us to the important question: will it also (by default,
> > with no easy way to turn it off)
> > > auto-run viral-attachments,load 1x1-authenticating-gifs, perform
> > > fill-in-your-favorite-nightmare, on other OSes as well?
> >
> > It'll have a hard time running win32 viral executable on Linux. can't
> > really see it doing that. on a more serious note - its conservative on
> > what it allows you to display in-line (some might say - paranoid), I even
> > had trouble getting it to display embedded html images inline.
>
> Actually, it can always wine them to some extent.
That'll be a neat trick (for OWA) as I don't remember any "back doors" that
allow web sites to remotely execute binaries on my platform using FOSS web
browsers. you need to remember that just by not running it with IE (even on
windows), anything you throw at it will lose 99.9% of its potency just
because you use a decent browser.
this is probably what Gates was aiming to stop when he took on Netscape in the
browser wars - the capability of users to get better usability through
freedom. don't know what happened to MS, maybe it's complacency.
> Or bring upon us Linux
> viruses, for those pesky Lindows users who use their computers as root 100%
> of the time.
you can't help some people ;-)
--
Oded
::..
The best way to accelerate a Windows NT server is at 9.8 m/(sec^2).
-- Shaul Rosenzweig
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