Wow!

When was that?

I assume that bugzilla still accepts attachments (we were talking about lists). 
 What do we do to protect it?

 - Dennis

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From: TJ Frazier [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2011 14:08
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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
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