I've never bothered to look too hard for virus protection under Linux as
most viruses are MS spawened and driven by, IMHO, the poor practice of
letting Outlook exec content.
I've never had a Linux mail tool that would suffer from this sort of
virus.
Does Evolution suffer from this sort of virus?
tir, 2003-01-14 kl. 16:17 skrev Dave Finnegan:
> Should I be concerned that I could be receiving viruses now via my Linux
> Evolution mail reader?
Of course you should. Up to now, it hasn't happened, but tomorrow it
will.
Up to now there have been Linux trojans that exploit known weaknesses in
I
On Tue, 2003-01-14 at 10:17, Dave Finnegan wrote:
> Does Evolution suffer from this sort of virus?
>
> Should I be concerned that I could be receiving viruses now via my Linux
> Evolution mail reader?
Evolution does not support scripting, and I think (and hope) it is the
policy of the Evolution h
tir, 2003-01-14 kl. 18:21 skrev Jason Tackaberry:
> It is, however, always a possibility to exploit buffer overflows in the
> Evolution to execute arbitrary code as the user running it.
How would an rfc822/2822 mail message do this? What sort of an
attachment would do this? "Click on this Linux e
On Tue, 2003-01-14 at 14:32, Tony Earnshaw wrote:
> How would an rfc822/2822 mail message do this? What sort of an
> attachment would do this? "Click on this Linux executable and you'll be
> born to heaven."
When you get an email with an iCal attachment, Evolution will
automatically decode the att
On Tue, 2003-01-14 at 14:32, Tony Earnshaw wrote:
>
> How would an rfc822/2822 mail message do this? What sort of an
> attachment would do this? "Click on this Linux executable and you'll be
> born to heaven."
Lesser products :-) have been know to fail without needing an
executable: http://www.is
On Tue, 2003-01-14 at 08:17, Dave Finnegan wrote:
> I've never bothered to look too hard for virus protection under Linux as
> most viruses are MS spawened and driven by, IMHO, the poor practice of
> letting Outlook exec content.
>
> I've never had a Linux mail tool that would suffer from this sor
tir, 2003-01-14 kl. 21:17 skrev Jason Tackaberry:
> > How would an rfc822/2822 mail message do this? What sort of an
> > attachment would do this? "Click on this Linux executable and you'll be
> > born to heaven."
> Of course the above is completely hypothetical. But is that sort of
> attack r
tir, 2003-01-14 kl. 21:33 skrev Richard Bellavance:
> > How would an rfc822/2822 mail message do this? What sort of an
> > attachment would do this? "Click on this Linux executable and you'll be
> > born to heaven."
> Lesser products :-) have been know to fail without needing an
> executable: htt
ons, 2003-01-15 kl. 06:42 skrev Tony Earnshaw:
> Point taken. Thanks for taking the time and trouble, Jason. Much
> appreciated.
Apropos, I just received a Red Hat advisory on libpng, describing
exactly one of the vulnerabilities you and Richard described. Hmmm ...
Best,
Tony
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On Wed, 2003-01-15 at 08:50, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >I go through every so often and run RAV on my system
>
> Is this a default package with most installations?
Nope. RAV is available from GeCAD The Software Company, at
http://www.ravantivirus.com - it's not free, but I'm not sure what
antivi
On Wed, 2003-01-15 at 17:47, Bill Hartwell wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-01-15 at 08:50, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > >I go through every so often and run RAV on my system
> >
> > Is this a default package with most installations?
>
> Nope. RAV is available from GeCAD The Software Company, at
> http://ww
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