On Sat, 26 Apr 2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Glenn:
> (Yes, I was around for the RTFM worm -- the Morris worm -- but that used
> mail transfer agents, not mail user agents. It involved sendmail rather
> than /usr/ucb/mail. As such, it's not comparable to an attack on
> Outlook.)
Yep, I was there too!
Len:
> > The people running other software should not deceive themselves into
> > believing that they have immunity from hackers, crackers, and virus/trojan
> > programs.
On one hand, it's easy to write a little script which will bugger up a
unix system and mail it to someone, *BUT*, the recipient has to:
save it to disk,
change an attribute so that the script is executable,
change to the superuser id (usually root),
run the script.
On the other hand from Outlook, you just have to click on an attachment.
(I've heard of scripts being able to run from the preview pane in Outlook,
but not seen it seriously documented.) Win2k is better than previous
versions of Windows, in that I frequently have to install, or change
things as the Administrator user (superuser). This is good. Win2k is
good.
But on the gripping hand, I'd prefer to not have to worry about these
things, which is why I read my mail on my linux box, and play games on the
windows one. :)
dave
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Life is the urge to ecstasy.
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