On Fri, 24 Aug 2001 23:58, Tom Brinkman wrote: > On Thursday 23 August 2001 11:03 pm, s escribió: > > On Thursday 23 August 2001 10:45 pm, Carroll Grigsby wrote: > > > it occurred to me that I had been inflicted with my first email > > > worm! And, for all that I know, the very first Linux email worm!! > > > > How did you know? What did it do? How did you get rid of it? > > Details, please? > > Yes, I'm curious to. I suspect it was Code Red or some other > Windoze email worm embedded in the HTML that couldn't have caused any > problem with Linux specifically, but maybe with Nutscrape. Which is a > good reason not to use HTML, Windoze or Nutscrape for email, ever, > never! The same mesg's Carroll received have caused no problems for > Kmail. Then again I'm no security expert. I don't have to be. I quit > using M$ products to connect to the Net, mail or news years ago. HTML by itself _cannot_ do anything malicious -- it is a benign language. The main cause for 99% of all security problems of this type originates with VBscript, which can only be read by Microsoft applications. This is worsened by the fact that M$ software often accesses the kernel directly (via M$'s 'secret' API), and aren't hindered by the safeguards that are applied to other Windos software (which are still poor, IMNSHO). JavaScript can also be a problem, but it is far safer than VBscript. In short, there are _no_ GNU/Linux e-mail virii or worms. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan. "There are two major products that come from Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence." -- Jeremy S. Anderson
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