Saluton Tony :) On Fri 8 May 2009 09:18 +0200, Tony Mechelynck <[email protected]> dixit: > On 07/05/09 03:19, pansz wrote: >> Jürgen Krämer 写道: >>>> OK, so it's definitely spam. I don't know how it got through... >>> >>> I don't think so. I guess "redspider red" just replied to the wrong >>> mail or chose the wrong address from his address book. >>> >> Sure, anyone opens the attachment will see the pure-English text there, >> and it definitely is a mistake, not a spam. > > When I don't understand the plaintext, I may have a look at the email > source but otherwise I won't open any attachment. PDF and zip being > binary formats, they are sent in base64 content-transfer-encoding, which > means there's no way for me to tell if the attachment is malicious > witout opening it.
Don't worry about it so much: you use Linux, and most viruses and malicious software is written for Windows. Under Linux you can use "file" to check if the binary is executable (and if it is, if it is an Elf executable or not) and if you don't have Wine installed, you can't even run the malicious attachment. If you are worried, you can always set up a "test" account without privileges (e.g. not belonging to any group) to check the attach, but it is more or less safe opening it after checking what it is with "file". -- Raúl "DervishD" Núñez de Arenas Coronado Linux Registered User 88736 | http://www.dervishd.net It's my PC and I'll cry if I want to... RAmen! --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
