>From: Eric Brunson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: Michael Parker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], > [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], > [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], > [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], > [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], > [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], > [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], > [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Don't open this email (or Re: Virus or Hoax ?) MP> What I do know for sure about this is that, to date, I have received MP> four e-mails for one useless warning. One was good, two was pushing it, Make that five (5) messages, plus the two (including this one) I have sent.. >One point that I don't think has been covered is that he posted a >virus warning that could only affect PeeCee Winlusers who read mail >with a windows based mail reader to linux-diald, a Unix mailing list. I doubt this, as I do not use linux, freebsd, or any other form of the famed free-and-appropriately-priced OS, and the person whose message I first got is aware of this. >Most unix users use a text based mail reader and are therefore immune I prefer text-based software because I learned that way, but I don't use Unix. I don't use a text-based mailer at this time because, as you can all see, I use Hotmail. >to viral attacks by simply opening a piece of mail. Even people who ... I suppose there are a few JAVA exploits to Hotmail, but I turn off java, javascript, autoinstall, and any other annoying-looking function I can find.. >Frankly, anyone who uses a mailer that will automatically execute >arbitrary code contained in a data transfer from an unknown source ... Most people don't KNOW that their mailer will do that, and most of the mailers which do do so due to a buffer overflow, and obviously are not intended to do so.. so a person can't really decide NOT to use one... >deserves to choke on every lame ass virus that gets spammed in his >direction. If the users truly had a choice, I'd agree. >Just my $.02, ... Now if I could really make money from these e-mails, I might be happy to read them every single day.. ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-diald" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
