Re: [Evolution] Is virus protection required?

[Tony Earnshaw <tonni billy demon nl>]

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."

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> Of course the above is completely hypothetical.  But is that sort of
> attack really that unreasonable?  Difficult, yes, and a lot of very
> specific conditions would have to be met.  But probably not
> unreasonable.  We've seen more impressive things.

It's absolutely not unreasonable, no and your line of reasoning is a
real eye opener. I should have had more imagination.

> my point was that "benign data" like images, video,
> MP3s, or even email, can be used to exploit a vulnerability in the
> software that reads it as input.

Point taken. Thanks for taking the time and trouble, Jason. Much
appreciated. 

Best,

Tony

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