Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 05:20:05 -0800 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SCO going after BSD??? Message-ID: <3FBCBF85.3CC58588@mindspring.com> References: <20031120013831.GT98272@klapaucius.zer0.org> <20031120072423.GA80697@xor.obsecurity.org>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 10:28:04PM -0600, Minnesota Slinky wrote: > > > I talked to a couple of people who do beta testing for Microsoft and > > they said the issue came up a few years ago. According to them (one > > being my father), it has to do with security and virus protection. > > Again, this is second-hand, so take it for what it's worth... > > There's no possible sense in which this can be true. Plain text > attachments do not create a security or virus risk. When your message has "Content-Disposition: inline", and the handler for rendeing "Content-type: text/plain" happens to be Microsoft Word... -- Terry
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?3FBCBF85.3CC58588>