Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 11:45:44 -0700 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@urx.com> To: dochawk@psu.edu Cc: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>, Parag Dabke <paragdabke@hotmail.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Please delete mail with subject 'Homepage' Message-ID: <3AFAE1D8.25EE8A0E@urx.com> References: <200105101418.f4AEIdi01710@fac13.ds.psu.edu>
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dochawk@psu.edu wrote: > > mike mentioned, > > > Parag Dabke <paragdabke@hotmail.com> types: > > > I received this virus from list 'questions@freebsd.org'. > > > Is it possible to have virus check for the mailing lists. > > > You might consider running virus checks at your end. Disabling the > > ability for your mailreader to automatically execute code sent from an > > untrusted source is also a good idea. > > Too weak. *Not* disabling your mailreader from automatically executing > code is a *bad* idea . . . > > hawk, still amazed that anyone ever shipped a mailreader that does so > by default With all of MSes messages about eliminating that from their mailer as a security fix, I'm still surprised that it made it around as well as it did. Must be lots of people that haven't run "Windows Update" from their start bar and added their security patches. Sort of similar to the number of people still running the older, exploitable version of Bind. Kent > > -- > Prof. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. /"\ ASCII ribbon campaign > dochawk@psu.edu Smeal 178 (814) 375-4700 \ / against HTML mail > These opinions will not be those of X and postings > Penn State until it pays my retainer. / \ > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kbstew99@hotmail.com http://kstewart.urx.com/kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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