Re: viruses on GNOME?

[Dams / Anvil <root gruyere ath cx>]

Hello

The main reasons of why you're clicking on the link in your
wormed-mail are :

- First the attached finename was annakournikova.jpg.vbs.. The second
  extension is printed with windoz(r)(c)(tm)(f)(z) and Outlook(...).
  So you see annakournikova.jpg.. And it seems not so dangerous.. I
  think gnome should not make the same error and print the real name
  with all suffixes.

- If the realname was annakournikova.jpg and if it was a vb script,
  won't the "file" command give you the truth ? I hope if people know
  about the real nature of the file, they wont bastardly click on it.
  If, despite of all, they click we may give them some warning or
  advice like "dont do that it's dangerous..".. Maybe some analyzer to
  tell user if the script will do bad things could be helpfull

Am i wrong ?

  Dams

Arjan wrote : 
> Hi,
> Yesterday and today there has been much talk about another Windows
> (worm) virus: one that appears to display a picture of the famous
> tennis player Anna Kournikova, but instead sends itself to everyone
> in the lusers address book. ... and it made me wondering...
> In the end, GNOME will sport some sort of scripting language
> (probably more than one)...
> How can we avoid this kind of viruses? The most resent Windows virus
> problems were all caused by stupid macro viruses, just calling some
> components, doing nothing special at all...

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