On Thu, 13 Oct 2005 01:17:45 -0400, Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote or quoted :
> >No, that's what makes email a vector for infection. What makes using >the address book - for whatever purpose - possible for viruses is >having an API that allows arbitrary code to access it. But you have to >have that API - your customers are going to insist that they be able >to use their address book from third party applications. An automated change of address is possible today. It would be LESS easy to pull off under the scheme I proposed that requires digital signatures. Yes there are some downsides to a theoretical attack where phony change of address messages are sent out. They don't propagate. They don't corrupt. They are self healing when the original guy gets his virus problem under control. But you must balance that against the REAL downside of people's address books being filled with obsolete email addresses. And of course one of the reasons they are is people keep changing their email addresses to hide on spam. I am just saving as lot of busy work keeping them up to date. -- Canadian Mind Products, Roedy Green. http://mindprod.com Again taking new Java programming contracts. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list