On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Jan Johansson wrote: > In Windows (and a few other) email attachments are dangerous for > alot or reasons. > > The icon shown is in some cases extracted from the .exe file, > which can lead to that the program is exectued when you open the > mail. Cool, I didn't know that one... :) > It is all to easy to run stupid stuff, just click on it and then > yes (or not even the yes step), lusers do not read messages boxes. > > Some mailers understand html, java and/or javascript. Embed som > nice features in there and you get the problem when people open > their mail. Old folks like myself (hmmpf 24 years) usually say > that it is safe to open mails as long as one does not touch the > attachment, sadly that is not so anymore. Well, I usually say email is safe and I'm 18, so come on... but, on the other hand, you can say email is safe for me (with mutt/pine/whatever) because I'm smart enough. This email attachment stuff seems like computer darwinism to me :) > Default is to hide the file extension so that we also get the > nice problem of sexygirl.jpg.vbs, is it a nice girl or a virus? Eudora tells you (or used to tell you, didnt use it for a while) that where it saved the file with the full path and name, doesn't it? Anyway, I don't think a luser would refrain opening a file called sexygirl.jpg.vbs if a friend of his sent it and said it was a nice picture, would he? Kai PS: forgive me for not deleting all the useless stuff in this reply (the things I didn't reply to, I mean). I have to use pine right now and have trouble with this stupid pico thing... :) -- Kai Blin, <kai.blin(at)uni-tuebinegn.de>, Webmaster Linux, Windows and DOS, the Good, the Bad and the Ugly
