On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 10:47:12PM +0200, Rumen Yotov wrote: > On ??, 2004-01-30 at 21:43, Peter Wu wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 12:15:06PM +0100, Norbert Kamenicky wrote: > > > > > lukas wrote: > > > >On Friday 30 January 2004 05:02, Canek Pel??ez Vald??s wrote: > > > > > > >It's sad that the internet is troubled by some weirdos who are > > > >thinking that programming (or spreading) a virus is a real cool > > > >thing. > > > > > > > > > > Ooo yes, everything bad is good for something. > > > > > > One of virus purposes was to force M$hit to improve > > > their crappy pseudo systems. We learned M$ is > > > totally immune to such forces and really don't care > > > about security and stability at all. > > > (Only one thing is important INCOME.) > > > > Well, as a commericial company, Microsoft was founded to make money. So > > do other companies, don't they? > > > > > This situation really forced ppl to do something > > > with it ... and linux was born :-). > > > > Well, some of the recent worms are activated by end users open an > > attachment, which could be an vbs or an executable. It is the executable > > that infects the system as most Windows users log in as an Administrator > > role. > > > > What if root on a Linux box open an attachment to a mail he receives today > > and that attachment happens to be some executable that can ruin the > > system? > > > As far as i know attachments in Linux are not executable, unless u made > them such.
If I write a shell script and attach to an email sent to you, then you
save the attached shell script and run it when you happen to have the
roott privilege?
IIRC, any binary files can be attached to an email. Correct me if I am
wrong.
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