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The Wednesday 2007-08-08 at 10:53 -0400, Michael Letourneau wrote: > > No, screen savers are actually executable programs, not data. You normally > > do not call them directly, but "something" does. > > My bad. But the idea is still pertinent and though they are executable, > how many other desktop artifacts are not? Skins, backgrounds, and window > decorations come to mind. Yes its definitely not a straightforward or > likely method at all to be manipulated. It would be a problem if the program using those files has a hole, like a memory overflow. And those problems are detected now and then. The Gimp had one plugged this week, for instance. Not a virus, though, and not the user's fault. > But I think the other person's point was that if "x" is not executable, > then it cannot do any harm, which I think is a naive assumption, It "shouldn't" cause any problem. > plenty of > programs read in data, and if those programs are not properly written that > data can be used to trigger events. Not the least of which is any program > that has scripting tied into it, whether that be macros or otherwise. Yes, that might happen. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFGulLotTMYHG2NR9URAgq8AJ9zFYWAXDWgvuGfaC2dac2Fveto7ACghKJ1 ORyRRaFcjAP4VUQV0AnVNHY= =Xdji -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]