Re: [Ql-Users] Email attachments

2017-01-13 Thread Norman Dunbar
Evening Christopher, On a Windows pc? Never open anything attached that you are suspicious of etc. In a QL, just have fun. I wrote a QL virus many many years ago when all viruses spread by floppy disc. I never released it into the wild. Many viruses, trojans or whatever they are called this w

Re: [Ql-Users] Email attachments

2017-01-13 Thread Marcel Kilgus
jms1 wrote: > I would have thought not a SQmulator as it runs in java and java is not > particularly safe. > Can Marcel answer for QPC1 or 2? Security is not a design goal for a QL emulator. There is no security in SMSQDOS anyway. But unless you're personally wanted by the NSA I'm pretty sure you'

Re: [Ql-Users] Email attachments

2017-01-13 Thread Wolf
Hi, On 13/01/2017 18:32, Christopher Cave wrote: It is my normal practice to delete any email coming from an unknown or suspect origin WITHOUT looking at any attachment. Today I took such an attachment, a zip-file, and opened it with ACP in a QL-environment. There was a .ru (Russian ?) email add

Re: [Ql-Users] Email attachments

2017-01-13 Thread Graeme Gregory
On Fri, 13 Jan 2017, at 06:08 PM, jms1 wrote: > Well that is an interesting point. > > How safe is the virtual QL machine? > . > I would have thought not a SQmulator as it runs in java and java is not > particularly safe. Not sure how you come to that conclusion, I used to work on Java and it g

Re: [Ql-Users] Email attachments

2017-01-13 Thread jms1
Well that is an interesting point. How safe is the virtual QL machine? . I would have thought not a SQmulator as it runs in java and java is not particularly safe. Can Marcel answer for QPC1 or 2? How about Virtual Box running another OS. It is suggested any virtual machine is safe and is the

[Ql-Users] Email attachments

2017-01-13 Thread Christopher Cave
It is my normal practice to delete any email coming from an unknown or suspect origin WITHOUT looking at any attachment. Today I took such an attachment, a zip-file, and opened it with ACP in a QL-environment. There was a .ru (Russian ?) email address embedded in the file. My usual approach seems

Re: [Ql-Users] DM5 upsetting Dates in QPC2

2017-01-13 Thread Bob Spelten
Op Fri, 13 Jan 2017 06:41:10 +0100 schreef Wolf : Hi, there ae 2 versions of DM : DM5_obj and DM5_int_obj , the problem only seems to arise on the..int version, use the other one instead. Minor point is that only the _int_ version has been patched for GD2. I just installed both versions in

Re: [Ql-Users] DM5 upsetting Dates in QPC2

2017-01-13 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Wolf wrote: >> Do you think the source ocde could be released. > It would be nice, but I presume the author would aready have done so by now. Problem is, even the author doesn't have the source code anymore. Marcel ___ QL-Users Mailing List

Re: [Ql-Users] DM5 upsetting Dates in QPC2

2017-01-13 Thread Wolf
Hi, I tried both and give the same date problem. Here, they both protest that the date is wrong, but only the ...int version crashes QPC, the other works OK.. The file Extensions_cde looks like it is DIY Toolkit extensions, Phil Borman's WIN Tools. Which I doubt have any problems. This

Re: [Ql-Users] DM5 upsetting Dates in QPC2

2017-01-13 Thread Derek Stewart
Hi, I tried both and give the same date problem. The file Extensions_cde looks like it is DIY Toolkit extensions, Phil Borman's WIN Tools. Which I doubt have any problems. In the updates_doc, there was an issue with v5.05 getting the months wrong, maybe the invalid date is connected to this.