Wow! When was that?
I assume that bugzilla still accepts attachments (we were talking about lists). What do we do to protect it? - Dennis -----Original Message----- From: TJ Frazier [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2011 14:08 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [ooo-user] was RE: [email protected] [Was: Re: [Discussion] [email protected]] On 8/31/2011 16:56, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: > When's the last time you heard of malicious code in a Microsoft Office file? > No recent version will run macro code without warning and default disabling > on load. I would expect mail clients to also be circumspect about allowing > direct opening of document files provided as attachments. > Funny you should mention that. That very problem occurred on Bugzilla, with DOC attachments bearing Trojan viruses. --/tj/ > I think the recommendation for those, for the wary, would be to allow Zip and > encourage people to package anything simpler than an image that way. Of > course images and PDFs have exploits too. > > Perhaps the truly-safe cases are only text and zip? > > I don't know about you, but I also only receive e-mail in plaintext. > > - Dennis <snip>
